Movies: Autobiographical

Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of hi...

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

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 most important rock bands of all time....

Hartmann proposes a 76-minute film in which each minute stands for a year of his life. This obsessive rule is invoked in the last 4 “years” of his life (and of the film). A cable-car journey codes in its own duration the secret of a perdurable shot. ...

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 totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War....

A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Euro...

Has Matthew been wasting his life? He’s 29 years old with 4 memberships at adult video stores, 55 tapes of compiled porn, and absolutely nothing to show for it: no girlfriend, no ambition, only a big stack of porn. Run Run It's Him is the true to li...

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a ghostly portrait emerges, prompting Isidore to question his relationships with his parents and his boyfrie...

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In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary interludes. While speaking to issues of mental health, Gulman also offers his observations on a number of t...

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 Helena de Llanos, who lives in the chaotic house, full of memories and treasures, where her grandfather, Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), legendary writer, actor and director; and his wife, the actress and writer Emma Cohen (1946-2016), s...

TAPESTRY, part of Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych and filmed much later in Jordan's life, is a charged record of his bachelor life after marriage and child-rearing....

An autobiographical, partly animated, documentary about a filmmaker striving for a better future as a survivor of childhood sexual assault....

Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly active mind so he can get a decent night's sleep, capturing the details of what it's like to suffer fr...

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

Early nineties. On television the Gulf War breaks out, while on the Italian political scene the PCI disappears and the Lega Nord appears. Inter Milan is struggling with his usual (dis) adventures, and in the meantime Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spiri...

Apartments and photos. Initially, a game. There, meet David Bowie. I dive into boxes, I open albums. Bowie, cats, Tours, postcards, a stamp album, movie posters, a Lulu, bridesmaids' dresses, numbers ... I cross time....

A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child....

This autobiographical film portrays a regression to life in the womb and represents three psychic states....