Memory

In 1755, ten thousand French Canadian settlers were thrown off their land, loaded on ships, and exiled. Island Memories explores the past in a small Acadian community in Nova Scotia where the last survivor of this great deportation is reputedly buried. A lively film full of adventure, people, and history.

The last days of an old man who wants to tell the camera a secret of his life.

Ellen-Astri Lundby's haunting documentary traces the stories of six elders in Norway who grew up under the weight of World War II. Reconciling the horrors of the past with the present, the elders recount their time as young people as they describe the reality of their childhoods. During the country's fall in 1944, more than 50,000 civilians were deported to the south, and another 20,000 more forced to flee their homes, becoming refugees in the same country they called home. In the present day, the film follows the survivors as they meet with refugees, also children, from Syria and Sudan. Both groups carry similar memories of war, hardship and impossible horrors, and both the elders and audiences are presented with the same question--how will the wartime memories of today's refugee children affect them as adults?

An audiovisual chronicle of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia. Memorias Rotas centers on a group of republican fighters leaded by Commander José Moreno. The group disappears as they fail trying to escape by sea in the border between Galicia and Asturias and nobody ever knows about them.

Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan want to produce a film about the genocide of Kurdish people in Iraq, the Anfal campaign in 1988. They learn that, to achieve veracity by the means of cinema and to face their own identity, it's worth putting everything on the line - even their own life.

Eun-ho is working as a public service worker at the zoo. One day, a high school alumni comes in. They walk in the zoo for half a day.

Shiori, who has been searching for her missing son, meets an information pawnbroker who is able to exchange the information you want for an equivalent memory. Despite her father’s concern, Shiori entrusts her own precious memory to the pawnbroker....

My cheeks brush against the stones, I look out from a break in the wall.

Documentary that talks about the events that occurred on October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, where thousands of students were killed during a rally.

677 concentration camps were set up during the Bosnian war in the early nineties. Bosnian Muslims, Serbs and Croats, the way the victims and the perpetrators within each community deal with this legacy will determine the countrys future. USPOMENE 677 will show you the viewpoint of each ethnic group through a new generation, the sons and daughters of that war, who are struggling to come to terms with their toxic past. USPOMENE 677 is a story of our time. But the time to tell this story is short. Today, in a Bosnia fighting for EU membership yet threatened by possible return to war, the new generations, often in contrast with their parents, are desperate to find a way to live together for a different, peaceful tomorrow. Will they succeed?

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.

Egyptian film shot by Salah al-Tuhami.

A 1942 short film.

A retired farmer, battling dementia and the loss of his wife, receives help from his son to realize that life on the farm is no longer what it used to be.

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.

After a tragic accident on set, movie star, Sherif, now has to live with the consequence of that day. He falls into a state of grief and loneliness, but with the help of his cousin, Amal, the details of that fateful day starts to reveal itself.

Eight people from the generation of the Cypriot Crisis, who were born after the war, recall memories of places where they never lived and talk about their personal experiences, hopes, fears and the life they dream of living.

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.