Movies: Memory

From HBO's "America Undercover." On June 30, 1969, Lt. Jack Hulme was killed in Vietnam, having never met his newborn son. Thirty years later, filmmaker John Hulme finally seeks out what happened to his father, and who he really was. From family memb...

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Nesrin and Erdem talk about their relationship, which they don’t remember in exactly the same way. Çevik’s visually stunning essay uses their conversations to forge a pensive treatise on what it means to forget, where word and image play an equal rol...

A female photographer looks upon three photos that she has taken the night before her opening exhibition, and recounts her relationship with her grandfather....

Documentary on the atrocities the germans committed at the start of WW I in Dinant....

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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 famous explorer among Mongol tribes. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1948 in Afghanistan. Rumor...

At the end of the 80's, the city of Itacuruba, in the backlands of Pernambuco, was transferred to another locality due to the construction of a hydroelectric plant. In the new region, the city began to register many suicides, reaching a rate ten time...

A man walks into a foreign neighborhood to look for a house. Then, the drastic summarization of the story and time will confuse the audience at first, but it brings suspense and a deeply lingering impression to the story. There is more that is unseen...

Peter von Bagh's documentary about Juhani Aho and people around him....

Tracing the life of activist Costis Achniotis, the film develops within the history of the Cypriot radical Left and the bicommunal movement for reunification. In parallel quests between the past and present and with an auto-ethnographic approach, the...

When the electricity goes out on hot summer nights, there is no refuge for the family other than the roof of the house, these nights have turned into a distant past that carries many memories full of nostalgia...

Monica, after a restless night, meets a strange man, in a place she does not recognize. He questions her about past events that she doesn't quite remember....

Mountains silhouetted at dawn. Wind rustling through the tall grass. A woman carries a chair across mountains. Where to?...

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A manufactured memory....

The veiled story of Japanese diaspora in Mexico and the endurable impact of historic silence in its descendants is portrayed through testimonies and an exploration of landscape and choreography, questioning the formation and theatricality of individu...

Memories as photographs: no date, no place, no names....

An experimental documentary engaging with decades of DIY activist media, two death bed/legacy videos, and the wisdom of many living AIDS workers, as we all sit together in one (changing) format, video—VHS, hi-8, digital, Zoom—to address these and oth...

A student is about to move on to the next phase of his life when an incident draws him into the unknown....