Mémoire D

Experimental Film by Micheline Noël.

For a very long time, the French government has chosen to ignore the Vichy regime, its collaboration with Nazi Germany and its crimes, in an attempt to erase the past and reconcile all French citizens. Although historians, writers and filmmakers have helped develop a certain awareness on this controversial subject, it has been mostly civil society that has led the fight against falsification and denial, in the name of truth and justice.

Daranee, working on a convenience store staff night shift, dreams of luxury life, until one day a good opportunities in life come in. When she met a strange girl, the customer in the store, very beautiful and successful, recommend her to sell insurance. She did not deny but finding her first customer turned to be hard. She has to dig up into the old connection began to find friends in the past to call for insurance, but all my friends rejected her. She found a friend named Yo, a close friend she had forgotten in the past. She decided to call Yo, which she immediately recognized and agree to buy the insurance with the only condition that they have to meet ony at night, soon some memories started to clear up.

Michio Okabe, considered an icon of 1960s Japanese underground cinema, pursued the principle of subjective cinema by combining images that interested him cinematically and roles that he wanted to play himself. In MEMOIR the artist’s fantasies of the late 1970s are featured in a chaotic chain of images. (Go Hirasawa)

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

An audiovisual experiment made through static images, famous songs from Brazil and audios extracted from films and sound banks.

After a fifteen-year exile, Thomas come back home to bury his father, a Republican fighter thrown in jail by Franco's regime who died without ever regaining his freedom.

The Punta de Rieles prison was where most female political prisoners were incarcerated during the dictatorship in Uruguay. The way up to the building led through “the meadow” where there were animals grazing, and the prison itself was surrounded with flowers. The place seemed eminently liveable, almost comfortable, and at first sight there was no sign of the silent struggle going on behind those walls. This documentary is an attempt to reconstruct life at the prison through the testimony of some of the hundreds of women who were there and who resisted the military regime's attempts to grind them down and destroy them.

Between Palestine and the Auschwitz camps, a letter is written in it, the portrait of a young woman shaken by European history of this century and the previous one is shaped.

La mémoire courte is a French documentary film first released in 1963, directed by Henri Torrent. The film was scored by Alain Romans. It stars Jean Négroni, Michel Puterflam and Philippe Dominique. It has also been released under the title: The Short Memory. It is a black and white film and runs to 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Ayla, a young shepherdess, erects a burial to a drowned dead woman, trapped in solitude and oblivion on the depth of a lake. A mysterious white horse will guide her.

NANJING: MEMORY AND OBLIVION uses archival footage and photos, interviews with Chinese survivors and eyewitnesses, former Japanese soldiers, and both Chinese and Japanese government officials, historians and lawyers, to document the events of "The Rape of Nanking" and to show how the interpretation of this history has become politicized.

The cliché has it that a picture is worth a thousand words. But is that true? Now in his thirties, Nicolas Wouters tries to find out what his grandparents’ photos do not reveal about their life as colonials in the former Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the period 1946-1958.