Memory Movies

Nada and Rabieh are a Palestinian couple living far from the possibility of a homeland. A meditation on time, memory, and the distance from a dream. ...

A dash of youth, a pinch of age, and an unrecorded recipe: Mudder's Hands is a charming documentary conversation about arthritis, centered around the...

This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and...

A simple dish haunts a young woman as she longingly attempts to recapture the nostalgia of her childhood. Spill the Beans aims to capture the sensory...

José-Manuel Barata Xavier reflects on his old childhood bathtub.

In the woman’s room, memories constantly accumulate and disappear like dust. The man spends his time in this room creating futile little games...

A young photographer battles the guilt he feels for his best friend's death with the desire to move on with his life

Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean...

On March 29, 1947, peasants armed with sticks and knives attacked the French garrisons in Madagascar. The revolt would end twenty months later with...

This documentary updates the life experiences of victims of ETA terrorist activity, twenty years after the multi-award-winning documentary Sin...

An experimental short assembled from YouTube videos of the director’s former classmate, TV fragments, and a 2006 graduation interview recorded...

A grandmother takes her granddaughter to visit her past memories through old photographs.

This short documentary sifts through the pages of a woman's diary who has recently begun to write her memoir. As she looks back at her life and some...

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s...

The desolation of vast retail spaces is not so far off from the decay of one's memories.

A year after the death of his paternal grandmother at the age of 101, filmmaker Martin Villeneuve brings her back to life using a special talent.

Comfortable in the routine of his 9-5 job, a postcard triggers office worker Ben to confront a memory from his youth. This leads him on a path of...

Pia Yona Massie's Sayonara Super 8 uses personal archival footage to ask questions about the fragile nature of memory, human relationships and the...