Memory Movies

Documentary about the preservation of Brazilian films on celluloid.

This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and...

Years before she saw a man being swallowed by a wave, inside a swimming pool. With this event, time ceased to be linear, and in a split second her...

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still...

A mysterious and eccentric man walks into a bank to ask for a loan and to summon dark secrets from the past.

Nada and Rabieh are a Palestinian couple living far from the possibility of a homeland. A meditation on time, memory, and the distance from a dream. ...

Da Costa, an artist from Ceará, decides without warning to walk away. Nearly three decades later, his daughter relies on a few clues to visit...

Memory prevents rest and a woman about to die takes advantage of cinema to tell her story (inseparable from that of Franco’s Spain) and to say...

The narrow streets of the old city of Fez wind around walled houses, crumbling palaces and quiet courtyards. Rajae, a schoolteacher, reminisces about...

On October 17 and 18, 1961, during a non-violent demonstration against the imposed curfew, dozens of Algerians were murdered in Paris by police...

An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is...

After the accidental death of his daughter, Rainy, who fell from a bridge, Aek, a single father, finds himself consumed by grief and guilt. He...

When Jean drives by the house of his childhood years later, he faces the dramas of his family’s past.

After a chance encounter with someone from his past, a solitary man in New York reflects on lost connections, memory, and the quiet ache of growing...

After a breakup, a sleepless young man begins closing the countless tabs open on his computer until only one memory remains.

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...

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until...

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