Movies: Memory

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...

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and experiences. They reflect about filial love, gender and isolation through her overbearing nature....

Memories haunt a man and blur the lines between reality and imagination....

An old man searches for happiness in old photos....

Aqueducts transport water. Images transmit the memory. Images of aqueducts are useless....

For Sarah, her past has become a blur but she can’t shake the feeling that something horrible is locked away in her memories. Drawn back to her childhood home by a strange force, Sarah pieces together her past to unveil the truth behind the fate of h...

An old woman attends classes of digital photography and editing. It is not a late hobby, but a project undertaken with a clear aim in mind. Ragnhild Borgomanero wants to be able to preserve the memory of her deceased husband Guido, the biggest privat...

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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 family disappeared, leaving only behind the traces of their presence. Through the window´s reflex she r...

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“Here are some Images” is an short film exploring the interplay between internal and external images, using hand-processed 16mm footage and musings on perception and memory....

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 goodbye. A terrace as a border and a song that crosses time. At home, nothing is always—and everything is s...

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Monica is a 19 years old girl full of insecurities thanks to something that happened to her years ago, her brain block the events. She goes to a party with her best friend and ends up pregnant. She doesn’t remember who the father is. She asks her bes...

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A young man returns to a place that no longer feels like home. Along the way, old melodies echo through memories he can’t outrun....

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Childhood memories continue to live inside me. Some of the most painful ones are the ones that echo the longest....

Two girls memorialize their friend....

In a remote area of New Zealand, two young friends took LSD, 13 years later their camera was found...