Memory Movies

After submerging into a bowl of menudo, an undocumented Mexican immigrant in the U.S. embarks on a surreal journey through his memories in Mexico in...

A young man returns to a place that no longer feels like home. Along the way, old melodies echo through memories he can’t outrun.

Emma, who lives in a small boring town, writes about her life and inner thoughts in her diary.

The short film is based on events surrounding a 1977 mining accident in the Donbas region that ultimately led to the mine’s closure. In the...

An old, ailing general is losing his memory. His anarchist son wants to connect. They share a passion for the Wild East, where grandfather was a...

A woman talks to Hyun-o with pleasure, but he has no recollection of meeting her. Leaving her embarrassed, he finds a pebble in the pocket of his old...

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...

A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.

On the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left behind.

A skeptical woman checks out an extraordinary storage facility where customers can literally compartmentalize their issues. A cowboy/salesman tries...

As Sasha prepares to leave her newly sold home after her husband's passing, his presence lingers in his paintings of her. But an unrelenting fridge...

In order to buy a horse, a man wanders in the bazaars of Thessaly. His journey will take him further than he imagines, as old prophets, forgotten...

My grand father Wilhelm was a former Wehrmacht soldier. I have been filming him since my adolescence. After his death, I opened a box with memories...

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...

On their last night of uni, Billie and her housemates celebrate with a game of poker. But somebody's missing. With death on the cards and their...