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Documentary about the Memory Project of Student Activism of UnB (University of Brasilia) - PROMEMEU in portuguese.

An optimistic video store owner tries to keep the experience alive in a time when digital streaming is taking over.

An experimental short film about memory, memorabilia and its impermanence in the age of technology

At the urging of a socialist fellow Australian, filmmaker David Bradbury travels to Cuba and documents the current economic, social and cultural realities and disappointments of post-revolutionary Cuba.

On December 6, 2023, Alfredo Maria Bonanno passed away after more than half a century of anarchist activity. In his memory, we present the following short video, Let’s Be Done with Waiting, dramatizing the final section of one of his best-known works, Armed Joy.

The film explores sites and practices of memory in post-socialist Bucharest, twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. It was shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of the oldest public parks in Bucharest. This central, urban space attracts people from all walks of life. It is a place for social interaction, solitary reflection, reverie, and memory. Interweaving recollections of the past with present-day scenes from the park, the film presents a montage of stillness and motion, images and voices, landscapes and people.

A split-screen animated film that explores the complex nature of memory in contemporary post-communist Romania. Using a collection of everyday, household objects as windows into the past, it features 16mm stop-motion animations of these artifacts, projected alongside selections of interviews from the ethnographic research with the objects’ owners.

As a middle aged married couple shop for a new bed they begin to realise their bed might not be the only thing they’ve out grown.

Mon Marquès, a professor, already retired, of pedagogy at the University of Girona continues working, after more than thirty years, in an investigation into the exile of the Spanish Republican teachers. Mon travels from the education system of the second Spanish Republic 1936-39 to today, emphasizing the differences between the Republican educational system and the Franco dictator's system, as well as the repression suffered by these and forced exile to France and Mexico. This document brings lights to the darkness that has always existed on the subject of Republican exile, since as Mon says: of the remaining people we had data, but from those who marched there was no documentation, so they did not exist.

"La memoria rebelde" gives us a different version of the history of Spain from the Second Republic to the Democratic Transition. It shows to us how that period was using some oral evidences that reconstruct the events. It has a touch of defense of the democracy and the freedom, and it criticize the ones that didn't want a full democracy and the ones that put an end to the Republic and support the dictator Francisco Franco.

Documentary about the figure of Juan Modesto Guilloto.

A selection of strange love stories filmed across many different parts of the US

t narrates the repression suffered by the local population of Fuentes de Andalucía after the military coup of 1936.

The documentary captures one of the most silenced chapters of the Civil War in Malaga. In fact, barely a line appears about this massive exodus in the history books. However, despite the passage and silence of seven decades, that event remained very much alive within numerous Malaga families.

At the beginning of World War II, a mineral became necessary for the German state: wolfram. Galicia became “El Dorado” for many people who were looking for easy money and/or work in those hard years of the Spanish postwar. Miners, adventurers, guerrillas, civil guards, political prisoners, etc., lived together in the Galician mountains and intertwined their lives. This is the story of those people told by themselves.

Documentary in which ten republican women remember their time in Franco's prisons. “Some put wedges in her nails; my sister-in-law has currents on her fingers and nipples; some have been raped”; “Since they hit first and then ask questions, they hit me.” “Baby, they have given us the death penalty. I told him: but, Virtudes, they will commute you!". These are some of the testimonies of ten Republican women in Franco's prisons that Tomasa Cuevas, a former member of the Communist Party, collected on an old recorder hidden in her bag so that they would not be lost in oblivion.

Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle to W. C. Fields and Andy Clyde.

An Attempt to depict remembering something from long ago.

Through archival footage, the documentary provides an overview of Dr. Martin Luther King's contributions to the civil rights movement.