Movies: Memory

Kawase pays tribute to the grandmother that raised her after being separated from her parents as a child. The film teems with memories, but it is the faded, dusty photographs capturing the kindness in her grandmother’s shy smile that truly bring the ...

Karl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm Bolex video camera, and began a journey through the Ecuadorian jungle, collecting the visual testimony of...

Vila das Torres was a self-built community based on one of the largest urban gardens in Rio de Janeiro, below the energy towers of the Light Company and next to the train lines. Eight years after its removal for the construction of Parque Madureira, ...

After the death of her father, Alexis is left with unresolved anger and grief. As she reflects on her childhood and the painful memories that shaped her, she begins to see her father’s struggles in a new light, even if it’s too late to tell him....

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A shadowed man splices together super 8 filmstrips of an overdosed junkie’s memories, causing her life to flash fragmented before her eyes in this incredible experimental deathtrip that would have made Stan Brakhage proud. Canada / Directed by Guill...

In Asturias, the Duro Felguera company dismissed 232 employees in 1993. From then on, a ten-year struggle began for the workers to be reinstated. "Resistencia" is the story of a workers' struggle that ended up triumphing....

One-shot sci-fi following Kristian, forced by the government to scan his memories, trying keep a secret that threatens everything he has left....

A mother remembers her brother as her son comes to terms with his partner....

An intimate look at the human faces of America's current opioid epidemic. Seen through the eyes of a mother and the lens of a small town....

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the silence that surrounds them, Andrea watches the moment pass and with it her certainty about her future dre...

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Charlie and Rachel, two high school sweethearts, reconnect at a natural history museum, all while a narrator watches carefully....

What if we changed viewpoints? "Bullying, our lives after" highlights the suffering of adults who were once bullied pupils. Ten, twenty or thirty years later, trauma is still present. Following Nathalie, Laurine and Samuel, this movie shows the long-...

A manufactured memory....

Two brothers argue over what to do with the old house left to them by their late grandfather....

On a continuing journey and without destination defined, the painter Anton Lamazares meets with friends and family to reflect about key issues to answer this question: what place is left for the art as a way of understanding existence?...

After suffering an accident, a man suffers the pain of grief, marked by the great love he has for his family. He tries to connect with his wife and daughter at all times, but death prevents this memorable encounter. The anguish of loss seen through a...

A rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently. A symbol of resistance for over 200 years, the Abakuá society has managed to survive slavery, the Spanish domination and the Revolu...

The phenomenon that occurs in a room full of objects from the past allows Ulises to temporarily recover his memory....