Mem

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.

Patients from different backgrounds and each telling their own story will spend one night full of thrills and dreams at the mysterious "Memory Hospital".

This feature film is made up of five parallel stories, which narrate the experiences of the combatants in the war, their fears and conflicts in the process of transition to a life without weapons. This film is a vision of the conflict, told by those who suffered it first hand. In Colombia the war has never been narrated like this.

Armando and Gualtiero are two elderly homosexuals who have been living together for fifteen years now. One day, though, the unthinkable happens: Armando, suffering from Alzheimer's, no longer recognizes his partner and, as if that weren't enough, he believes he is married to Paloma, their South American caregiver. Gualtiero's attempts to win back Armando turn out to be holes in the water, but where the man fails, the goldfish arrives, Elton John, who keeps a secret in his aquarium.

Rwanda For Memory (Rwanda pour mémoire) is a 2003 documentary film about the Rwandan Genocide. Facing up to the scars left by the genocide, Samba Felix N’Diaye manages to find just the right sense of distance to film the inexpressible while nevertheless communicating a message of hope.

After almost twenty years in business, the historic water laundry in Lecce's San Pio district closed down. Before it, the same fate had befallen other businesses. It is the phenomenon of gentrification; some places, even the most unlikely streets and buildings, end up changing their physiognomy without a valid explanation as to why.

Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the killing. In independent Mozambique, those inhabitants of Mueda who survived regularly re-enact the massacre in situ. They themselves play the roles of victims, assassins, and spectators. Ruy Guerra, now a Brazilian but born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique), filmed this extraordinary creation of liberated popular culture, intercutting it with first-hand interviews on the massacre. The mix is compelling, and the grave yet joyous spectacle unique.

It became world news in October 2019 when economic reforms in Ecuador led to gas prices suddenly shooting up by 123 percent. People from urban and indigenous communities united in protest. In The Rebellion of Memory we follow the events through their eyes, as the country’s capital, Quito, descends into smoke-filled chaos.

Filmed between 1945 and 1971, 16memorias tells the story of the Posada Saldarriaga, a Medellín family that grew up amid the euphoria of industrialization, the sugar mills sugar bowls, trips to Miami, sows and balloons. Twenty five years of almost uninterrupted daily life that they were about to get lost in an old house they give us the strange possibility of seeing our childhood for the first time; to recover brother's accomplice smile when we conquer kingdoms that no one else saw and felt how powerful we were every time we received applause from our parents. Searching the origin of adult life and recognizing the distance that separates us from those scenes wonderful, what seemed to be a cluster of forgotten images becomes the only evidence that remains to ensure that there was a time when we believed that all days were to be warm, simple, and blue.

To open a photographs box is to travel through past and present, thinking about the future.

Isa, a pregnant middle-aged woman, is clearing out her parental home, where her father recently passed away. She is surprised by a visit from her terminally ill mother, with whom she has had little contact since her childhood. The estranged relationship between them leads to a confrontation, in which years of unspoken feelings finally surface. As a result, Isa must make the difficult choice to let go of her mother.

What happens when a crazy filmmaker meets a crazy boulder and they decide to make a film together? It could be called pre-programmed chaos or the beginning of a common vision. After nearly two years of work, the film is finished, pure soul has come out! Camera and direction show boulders in a unique style. The philsophy and climbing art of Bernd Zangerl set the crown on the film. The locations were Ticino, Magic Wood and the mountains of the Silvretta. Each area has its own character, its own style and ambience. 'Every centimeter has its meaning. As with Humbold's natural vision, thought and feeling merge, and here the symbiosis of man and rock, man's stone, humanized petrified. " The film shows Bernd Zangerl, Barbara Zangerl and Thomas "Steini" Steinbrugger during bouldering at Magic Wood, Silvretta and Ticino. The best and most beautiful first visits by Bernd Zangerl are documented as well as spectacular highballs and low water soloing.

A woman writes increasingly passionate love letters without answer. Her passion and frustration are interwoven with a sense of impending doom, a vision of the coming Mexican apocalypse. A single personal tragedy mirrors the struggle of an entire country trying, in the midst of increasing chaos, to find itself. Shot during months on the backroads of Mexico, director Rodrigo Reyes has crafted an idiosyncratic and visceral x-ray of his homeland.

Has the catastrophe already happened or is it about to? Two men and a woman sit in their bunker-like apartments, as if they were in a waiting room. Overwhelmed by the flood of media information and guidebook words of wisdom, they seek stability in the piano play of the educated middle-class and Far-eastern self-optimization techniques. Their passive bewilderment turns into frenzied activism. Now something has to happen! But nothing does.

In the middle school, the pawn Paul Watrin spends his sad life, in the middle of a people of cheeky and mocking kids for whom he is the enemy, the whipping boy. Only Pierre Launay, a studious child with a pitiful heart, defends the old pawn and his son against the incessant attacks of this cloud of pranksters and his affection consoles the poor man for his daily miseries. However, a drama unfolds in the child's family.

A Documentary series about Tasmanian Ghost Towns, exploring forgotten communities frozen in time.

"One of the most curious and mysterious strengths of cinema is that it outlives us all. So sometimes, on camera, everything is a matter of life and death."

The fight for housing and the production of a great film. The memory of four women about a neighborhood in Vitória da Conquista and their encounter with the universe of cinema, in the 1990s.

The discovery of @SantaRamonaMemes, a Tiktok account led by a group of tweens, threatens the adult world of a stagnant town. The Santa Ramona Meme Show is a short film that shows the ridiculous fight between modernity and tradition, entering into a town full of boomers, cringe and cream-filled croissants.

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