THEME EXPLORATION

ancestral homes

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Colours of Time
Colours of Time
2026 · Cédric Klapisch
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967 · Jean Rouch
The 8-Tomb Village
The 8-Tomb Village
1996 · Kon Ichikawa
Baron Blood
Baron Blood
1972 · Mario Bava
Horus: Prince of the Sun
Horus: Prince of the Sun
1968 · Isao Takahata
Exhuma
Exhuma
2024 · Jang Jae-hyun
The Haunted Palace
The Haunted Palace
1963 · Roger Corman
Moana 2
Moana 2
2024 · David G. Derrick Jr. & Jason Hand
Forever and a Day
Forever and a Day
1943 · Robert Stevenson
Mortuary Blues
Mortuary Blues
1990 · Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai
Naked Under the Moon
Naked Under the Moon
1999 · Lav Diaz
The Tree of Blood
The Tree of Blood
2018 · Julio Medem
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Luchino Visconti Italy

His films obsessively document the decay and spiritual emptiness of aristocratic ancestral estates across Italian history.

 Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan

He explores how family homes carry generational memory and how returning to ancestral spaces reveals hidden truths between family members.

 Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan

His meditative films use ancestral homes as stages for examining cultural displacement, time, and the weight of family history across generations.