Memory Movies

Karl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm...

Between memories and intimate ghosts, a narrator wanders through the haunted corners of her own memory.

A wordless 16mm experimental short film exploring the human relationship to nature, labor, and the evolution of machinery.

After a chance encounter with someone from his past, a solitary man in New York reflects on lost connections, memory, and the quiet ache of growing...

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

A rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently. A symbol of...

Real memories get confused with invented ones, while the movie's director investigates his parent's past in a work that wanders between fiction and...

On a continuing journey and without destination defined, the painter Anton Lamazares meets with friends and family to reflect about key issues to...

A mad scientist connects a kidnapped man's brain to an analog dream world.

Can you remember what you were doing on 15th March 2003? Or what the weather was like on 30th May 2007? Twenty-year-old British student Aurelien can....

Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and future in Homs, Syria. Behind the self-portrait...

Through the act of writing, Loyah, a woman in her late twenties, begins retracing the paths of her childhood. What starts as a journey of...

Thomas, 70, looks back on the last evening he and his lost friend Mari spent together. An evening in which they drink wine, dine, listen to piano...

Seven-year-old Aya is forced into an unexpected quest to survive, after everyone at her primary school believes she is haunted by jinn.

The narrow streets of the old city of Fez wind around walled houses, crumbling palaces and quiet courtyards. Rajae, a schoolteacher, reminisces about...

Memories haunt a man and blur the lines between reality and imagination.