Memory

Short film by Mahde Hasan.

A collaboration between Ponkotsu Quest and the video game Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory for the latter's release on December 14, 2017.

Forbidden Memory summons remembrances and memories of the fateful days in September 1974 when about 1,500 men from Malisbong and neighboring villages in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat were killed while 3,000 women and children were forcibly taken to naval boats stationed nearby where they encountered unspeakable horror. For 40 years, the survivors lived in relative silence. Now they tell their stories.

Summary of Super Dimension Century Orguss TV series. The story focuses on Lt. Kei Katsuragi, a fighter pilot. His mission is to protect a new bomb while it is being planted. The bomb, the Space/Time oscillation bomb. The plans go wrong, Kei has to try and stop the bomb, messes up the settings and the bomb goes off, scrambling time, space and the dimensions. The series follows Kei adventures in this new dimension after he is picked up by the Emaan, a group of techno-gypsies, and his attempt to set the time/dimensions straight.

Abel Gance looks back on his life and his films in this short film made to celebrate his 90th birthday in 1979.

A group of friends, who resisted the military dictatorship, and their children will face the conflict between the daily life of today and the past when one of them is dying.

Adel lives happily with his wife until he meets his ex-girlfriend, who works as a dancer. During her visit to his home, she faints and then he discovers that she has died. Adel is arrested and his wife is shocked, while his friend the police officer tries to find out the real killer.

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.

An experimental look at the history of Saudi Arabia through the eyes of a Photographer.

Kobu, an old turtle lady, runs a memory rental store on her fishing boat. When a young hedgehog boy sneaks into her store it leads to a series of unexpected event that forces Kobu to come to terms with her past.

When he died, Byron Levy left behind a vast inheritance — of drawings.

A long lost live concert performance from The Heartbreakers explosive 1984 reunion World Tour that included fellow Dolls Sylvain Sylvain & Jerry Nolan plus Billy Rath! Filmed for TV broadcast at La Edad De Oro in Madrid, Spain, this concert captures powerful performances of songs from throughout Thunders' amazing career including Personality Crisis, Too Much Junkie Business and Born To Lose.

Traces the dramatic shifts of classical Indian dance through the rebellious figure Shanta Rao and her artistic practice that went beyond her identity as an urban, educated, high-caste cosmopolitan. The work provides a rare and intimate glimpse into Rao’s life who was once one of the most visible representatives in the history of classical Indian dance but is now an obscure figure. Chatterjee, whose voiceover accompanies the images, saw Shanta Rao perform for the first time in 1953. He was an ardent chronicler of her life, witnessing many public performances and private practices until her death in 2007. In 1979, Chatterjee, then the director of India’s National Institute of Design, published Dances of the Golden Hall, a collaboration with Shanta Rao and photographer Sunil Janah (1918-2012), whose images you see.

A Spanish documentary which portrays both the problems of identity and assimilation of the Ainu people indigenous to Northern Japan, and the means of preserving and disseminating their culture.

Matthew Highton encourages us to celebrate the small moments in life that make us who we are, as he talks about his relationships with his loved ones.

A boy who has lost his best friend tries to get him out of his head and to move on with his life.

A man wanders aimlessly around the decrepit warzone that used to be his home, carrying an urn of his lover’s ashes. In his survival, he desperately searches for meaning to go on after having lost everything.

Part fictional narrative, part travelogue, part documentary, this unusual film serves as another sign that non-fiction film as we know it is going through a major revolution. Engaging fictional narrative elements to create a ‘mystery,’ Where is Memory is a boldly original and affecting meditation on the nature of complicity and the Third Reich. Masterful use of archival footage matched with contemporary footage of Europe, a haunting score and an inspired mix of realities for a thoughtfully framed poetic odyssey that charts new cinematic territory. — Judges’ Award, Northwest International Film Festival