A Family

In her directorial debut, award-winning French writer Christine Angot returns to Strasbourg, the city where she first met her now-deceased father at age thirteen. Armed with a camera, she sets out on a difficult personal journey to confront the family members who still live there and examine how they have reckoned—or failed to reckon—with a crime that marked her life. What unfolds is an intimate yet unflinching exploration of family silence, complicity, and the struggle to speak the unspeakable. Angot moves beyond her immediate family to engage with broader social circles, probing how society at large grapples with trauma and accountability. The film challenges conventional notions of family loyalty and forgiveness, asking hard questions about truth-telling and what it means to bear witness to harm within the bonds we're supposed to trust most. This is a deeply personal documentary that transforms a private reckoning into a broader interrogation of how families and communities address the weight of violence carried across generations.