Memory

Ostensibly searching for an emotional connection with her aging father, the woman contemplates her own inherited culture and familial touchstones. Her North American pop culture sensibility fuses with a distorted Japanese perspective to create a surreal interpretation of a “Japan of the imagination.” This fictional landscape is peppered with invented Japanese myths, ruminations on memory loss, the temporal space of digital photography and the ghosts of inherited imagination.

Fragments of the relationship between Woman and Man. As their bond weakens, Woman tries not to lose herself along the way.

Orhan Pamuk – Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature – opens a museum in Istanbul. A museum that’s a fiction: its objects trace a tale of doomed love in '70s Istanbul. The film takes a tour of the objects as the starting point for a trip through images, landscapes and the chemistry of the city. A film about Istanbul, love, memory and loss.

José’s son, Nando, has committed suicide and José repeatedly runs through the final words that he spoke to him.

This haunting animation film, rich with symbolism, is the filmmaker's plea for a peaceful world in which to raise his newborn son. Using the menacing imagery of the howling wind, the artist provokes viewers to reflect on the insanity of war. While the film is symbolic, its message is unmistakably clear: unless there is an end to conflict, we will continue to see our children swept away like leaves in the wind.

Mukarrama is an old woman in one of the villages of Mazandaran who cannot read or write and suddenly turns to painting. In her memoirs and dreams, she depicts the relationship between a man and a woman, master and servant, man and God in a special style.

“I wanted to make a tape about memory, not just ‘about’ memory. I wanted to re-create the actual sensation of memory through texture, colour, mood and movement. I also wanted to examine time in relation to memory and visual experience. With memory, time can be expanded or condensed; it is generally perceived subjectively. Remembering is a distinct effort to collect again what one knows, but memory can be deceptive and past events may be disordered upon recall. In the animated and re-scanned sequence at the end of the tape, the woman exists dislocated from any actual concrete space. She also exists dislocated in time.” -S.R.

A clay-animated film following Edgar Allan Poe on his accidental trip to Baltimore, with memory and nightmares of his works as he heads to his final moments.

ETERNITY is a drama and romance story of Thee who is a perfectionist photographer and Rin who emphasize the essential of the feeling on his work , former lovers who meet again at Thee's exhibition. Will this reunion be the thing that brings the couple back to loving each other or not?

Once a renowned conductor and musician, Clive was struck down in 1985 by a virus that caused massive damage to his brain. Against the odds, doctors managed to save his life but he was left with a memory that spans just a few seconds.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th century Finnish philologist G. J. Ramstedt travelled around Mongolia and Central-Asia. In this documentary Ramstedt’s memoirs are heard in the modern day setting, where tradition is replaced with hunger for money, and deserts give way to cities.

Shiori Fujisaki is unsure about her own feelings, while a girl who mistakenly phoned Shiori is not. Shiori cheers the girl on, but the girl doesn't dare confess. Slowly they become phone friends. Shiori's other friends cheer Shiori on, but she still doesn't dare to confess. In Shioris school there are many other characters, mainly girls doing sports and wondering about love.

Smith arrives in Dar es Salaam to tie up loose ends. He is helped by others on quests of their own.

A documentary about memories, places and people in Tanta on Youm El Waqfa

A tattoo ritual and hookah session memorializes a pre-war flower shop. After seeing its storefront in archival footage of the Lebanese Civil War, a first-generation daughter seeks information and connection to place. Scenes of 1976 Beirut are paired with today’s modern landscape, while roses are etched and coconut coals burn in a snowy diasporic setting.

Klamp worked closely with two communities residing in Armenian border villages to produce this award-winning documentary film. His captivating 23-minute short is significantly informed by the discipline of ethnology, the study of cultures and societies. It delves deep into the customs, traditions, and collective memory of these communities. The film deftly explores the establishment of a community archive, with village elders playing a crucial role in preserving their cultural heritage. Klamp captured the essence of intergenerational knowledge transfer and the significance of preserving a community's identity. Klamp’s work in Armenia is inspired by his wife's heritage and explores universal themes of memory and identity that resonate beyond the Armenian experience.

High school girl Hinoki has a keen sense of smell. Perhaps it has something to do with her father, who ran a coffee bean roasting store. This sets the quiet and contemplative girl apart from others. When she reads a notebook left behind by her late father, she discovers that he had written his impressions of the films he had seen at mini-theatres across Japan. However, one mini theatre, the location of which is unmarked, has notes on smells and impressions. Inspired to find it (and without telling her mother), Hinoki decides to venture forth and visit the cinemas her father had visited, handing out coffee beans to people she meets, all while searching for her father’s fading scent. As she does so, over the course of her laidback and slightly melancholy adventure she becomes a little more mature.

A young boy struggles with the loss of his beloved dog.

A short documentary telling the stories of two families whose children perished in the Thammasat University massacre