Movies and TvShows featuring "personal-documentary" theme.

A father, his adult son, and two mates head off on a journey to discover the grittiest, most beautiful bush the country has to offer. Yet what they find is something they were not prepared for, confronting their own mortality. Arrows of Fire is more than just a chronicle of a picturesque ride in the Australian Outback. It takes four men on a journey into their physical and mental limits on their quest for life through adventure.

Do I Sound Gay? is a personal documentary that explores the insecurity and self-doubt felt by gay men due to the stereotypes associated with their voice. The film follows the filmmaker as he seeks answers and tries to change his voice to sound more masculine.

Of Time and the City is a personal documentary that delves into the history, social decay, and modernization of Liverpool, England. It explores themes of working-class life, urban decay, and the loss of faith, while also touching on topics such as pop culture, literature, classical music, and religion. Through a mix of archival footage, poetry quotes, and autobiographical elements, the film paints a nostalgic and haunting portrait of the city.

Sands of Silence is a personal documentary about human sex trafficking and childhood sexual abuse. It explores the experiences of the filmmaker, Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, as she unravels the layers of trauma and secrecy surrounding these issues. Through interviews with survivors, activists, and experts, the film sheds light on the devastating impacts of human sex trafficking and the need for greater awareness and action to combat this form of exploitation.

Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that is falling apart.

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 refuses to participate in the documentary.

The film examines the painful relationship between fathers and sons through the eyes of one family. Four generations of men are featured in the film. Father to Son deals with the conflict between generations and their subjective memories, and the way different methods of raising children pass from one generation to the next. How often and to what extent do we repeat the behavioural patterns of our fathers; can we change or break these patterns or is repeating them inescapable, and how many generations are needed for change to occur? Are the values we have inherited from our fathers still valid in the modern world? One of the leading themes of this film is the sensitivity of a man and a boy, and its preservation and suppression.

A woman, hospitalized for a relatively long period, observes what surrounds her. She has time to dream, to revisit certain moments of her life. These memories, like small bubbles begin with her birth in Marseille in 1949 and bring us to Antwerp, Paris, New York, England… to end in Flanders in 2015, after she gets out of the hospital. There Was A Little Ship is a filmic-biographical essay, sincere and poetic.

A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against or conforming to.

After its former president Dési Bouterse is convicted for murder, the people of Suriname remain bitterly divided. Opponents and supporters of the ex-president are unable to put the country's turbulent history behind them. Ananta Khemradj (32) wants to know what it takes to reunite the Surinamese people.

Director Sonja Lindén's personal and sensitive quest to the core of the modern information society where technology and human beings get more and more entwined. This documentary explores our society on the verge of turning ubiquitous - a wireless society, where the laws of time, space and distance are revolutionizing the concept of liaison. Do the consequences of the technological revolution increase our freedom, or do they limit us? Is it possible to find a balance between one's natural rhythm and the society that spins at an ever increasing and demanding speed? Are we chasing echoes of our lost inner wholeness in our everyday lives, which are becoming busier and more fragmented than ever before?

Peter von Bagh takes us on a trip to his homeland and Oulu, a small Finnish town, tracing the turbulent changes it has undergone in the 20th century. A life of the filmmaker, a history of his home and a history of cinema intersect in this magical film that works like a time machine. (text: International FIlm Festival Rotterdam

PROJECT WILD THING is an ambitious, feature-length documentary that takes a funny and revealing look at a complex issue, the increasingly disparate connection between children and nature.

A depressed, middle-aged, former standup comedian participates in his son's college documentary project.

Proxy is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the anxieties faced by individuals and their personal struggles with psychoanalysis. The film focuses on the intricate dynamics of parent-child relationships and the lasting impact of childhood experiences. Through intimate interviews and reflective narration, Proxy provides a unique perspective on the journey towards self-discovery and healing.

Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas. Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia turn into a veritable nightmare?

On June 21, 1967, at the age of 17, Lucy Winer was committed to the female violent ward of Kings Park State Hospital following a series of failed suicide attempts. Over 30 years later, now a veteran documentary filmmaker, Lucy returns to Kings Park for the first time since her discharge. Her journey back sparks a decade-long effort to face her past and learn the story of the now abandoned institution that once held her captive. Her meetings with other former patients, their families, and the hospital staff reveal the painful legacy of our state hospital system and the crisis left by its demise.

A woman from Lapland falls in love with a Viennese soldier during World War II, becomes pregnant and leaves Finland. She gives birth in Hamburg, but later becomes home-sick and returns to her country. The woman is Mari Soppela’s grandmother, the starting point of Soppela’s film, Family Files. Naturally, it is only the start of the film: in the Soppela family saga, it is merely one link in an endless chain.