Memory Movies

Life is like a movie. Whether it's short or long, it begins somewhere and ends unexpectedly somewhere else. We ought to watch it all involuntarily.

The now grown up Leoš remembers his childhood in communist Czechoslovakia of the 1970ies, his escape to Austria and first impressions in this new home...

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...

From HBO's "America Undercover." On June 30, 1969, Lt. Jack Hulme was killed in Vietnam, having never met his newborn son. Thirty years later, filmmak...

A student is about to move on to the next phase of his life when an incident draws him into the unknown.

Tracing the life of activist Costis Achniotis, the film develops within the history of the Cypriot radical Left and the bicommunal movement for reunif...

Dan tries to find his lost girlfriend, and he’s deeply obsessed with his memory.

«My grandma had a great strength and love for life which made me believe that some of us were able to become immortals and escape death. When she pass...

Unlocking memories of institutional ‘care’. Parragirls Past, Present is a deeply moving immersive experience, presenting former residents’ visions of...

On a continuing journey and without destination defined, the painter Anton Lamazares meets with friends and family to reflect about key issues to answ...

Identities attempts to describe the importance of silence in communication, of those moments when someone is making up or remembering what he is going...

A man walks into a foreign neighborhood to look for a house. Then, the drastic summarization of the story and time will confuse the audience at first,...

Karl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm Bolex...

A family history archive as told by matriarch Azalu Mekonnen and her granddaughter Samira Hooks.

A moving personal documentary about Danny, a friend of Kybartas who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1986. This powerful work explores the reason fo...