Autobiographical Movies

Iron and Silk is a 1990 movie based on the eponymous book by American writer Mark Salzman. It details his journey to China after college to study...

Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that's now in his dad's shed. Gavin seeks his dad's understanding but he's uninterested in modern art and...

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

Filmmaker Juliet Belisario revisits her childhood, interweaving 16mm vignettes and her old child services documents, uncovering truths she...

This is a book excerpt adaptation from Anna Akana's "So Much I Want To Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister"

Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, compiles his Super 8 footage to offer an intimate look at what it was like to be a member of one of the...

Charting Julia Bradbury's battle with breast cancer, following her as she comes to terms with her diagnosis and prepares for a potentially...

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his...

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns...

Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with...

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the...

Isabelle Huppert is one of the most famous French actresses. In this portrait she reflects in voice over on her movies and her craft. She seems to...

A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters...

Filmmaker Matthew Thomas Ross provides an original look into his personal journey of a rare cancer diagnosis in his 30s. Through expansive childhood...

João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

Filmmaker Helena de Llanos, who lives in the chaotic house, full of memories and treasures, where her grandfather, Fernando Fernán...

A day in the life of director Boris Lehman: he wanders from cafe to bookshop, cinema to museum, writer to musician, and into the storeroom of the...