Movies: Memory

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....

About to turn 100 years old, Santo Amaro School closed its doors in 2020, amid the pandemic, leaving former students in deep sorrow. The story of the school is now told by different generations of students, teachers, nuns and employees, who return to...

In the 1970s, a bubbly photographer falls in love with a charming man, only to realize that he's not the person she believed him to be....

A room hangs in a dark void, as a character searches for his last fleeting possessions....

The film explores the turbulent lives of homeless persons in Cologne, Germany. Through their personal belongings the homeless share with the viewer their memories and emotions, and provide insight into the secrets of survival on the street....

January 2011 : the revolution bursts in Tunisia, my father’s country. The Tunisian people scream in a rage and I, here in Paris, can feel their revolt vibrating in my heart....

A meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to t...

A grandmother takes her granddaughter to visit her past memories through old photographs....

A visit to a bedridden lover from several decades ago takes Silka on a painful journey through her memory, where she confronts the romantic and political betrayal she thought she had left in the past....

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A daring documentary delving into the experiences of a Ukrainian forced labourer in Germany during World War II, exploring themes of love, loss, and profound longing. When the filmmaker’s grandmother was 19, she was taken from Soviet Ukraine to Germ...

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, ...

A few months after their breakup, Alice and Samuel meet at a diner's parking lot to return the last of their belongings. An unexpected confession disrupts their tense reunion. Between rekindled love and the ghosts from the past, where will this night...

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An abstract exploration of memory and loss....

A bittersweet memory of a Valentine's Day....

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

Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and the present of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rain forest in 1928. His aim was to break the British rubber monopoly and produce this material in Brazil for his car pr...

In 1963, Rosans, a village in the Hautes-Alpes region depopulated by the rural exodus, welcomed Harkis (military soldiers) forced to leave Algeria for supporting France during the Algerian War. Around thirty families settled in a camp below Rosans. N...

Stuck in a decollate life and a dead marriage a father goes to any lengths to continue to dream a life for his daughter and himself...