Memory Movies

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and...

“Our memories are marked by smells. Bound together by their olfactory sensitivity, a daughter leads her father to question his family heritage:...

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...

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

Many memories, some uncertainties, four young people and a soccer tournament.

Negotiating Amnesia is an essay film based on research conducted at the Alinari Archive and the National Library in Florence. It focuses on the...

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

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice...

Light is information, a signal more lasting than recollection. If there’s anyone out there to receive the message. Isolated in a sealed...

A band of American Civil War veterans suffer fear and anxiety deep within the white pine ribs of the smoky mountains.

After All is said and done. A man clears out his childhood home, remembering past conversations.

A manufactured memory.

The veiled story of Japanese diaspora in Mexico and the endurable impact of historic silence in its descendants is portrayed through testimonies and...