Memory Movies

Going out for cigarettes at midnight, a woman sees a boy holding a big tortoise. Real or imaginary, this encounter changes her life for good.

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

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...

A bereaved woman utilizes near-future tech, in an attempt to recall the comfort of a mundane memory with a recently lost loved one.

Two boys head into the forest to photograph a mysterious creature rumored to have haunted the area for years. Along the way one of them falls into a...

Lucia must find new meaning in her life, in order to move forward after a suicide attempt. Dealing with her grief over the death of her son, she...

Nesrin and Erdem talk about their relationship, which they don’t remember in exactly the same way. Çevik’s visually stunning essay...

Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only...

Marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Features previously unseen footage captured by Reuters journalists during...

I close my eyes and dream in rivers of light. Memories wash over me, sensations of light and sound.

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its...

An old, ailing general is losing his memory. His anarchist son wants to connect. They share a passion for the Wild East, where grandfather was a...

A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.

When Andres and Natalia met by accident, she wasn't impressed. In time they gravitated toward each other. But Paulo, a troubling figure from...

Two estranged sisters journey into a world of memories to bring their missing mother back from a virtual past.

The loss of Jack's wife Katie sends him into a deep depression. Having been through a similar loss, Jack's good friend Allen must now talk him back...

A powerful cultural documentary about a Caribbean father and son who return to Grenada to reclaim ancestral stories. Blending folklore, myth, and...

In January, a couple walks downtown at dawn. Is this a love story? Situations following after ‘February’ and ‘March’ put...

'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...