Memory Movies

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

A family history archive as told by matriarch Azalu Mekonnen and her granddaughter Samira Hooks.

Inside the mind of a sleeping old man; memories of a loving childhood resurface. While a young man struggles to make sense of the world around him,...

An abstract exploration of memory and loss.

Time has come to a stop for Kenji ever since Ella is no longer with him, the hollow in him that was once his life is starting to consume his body and...

ode to the director and to the untold times where she wanted to live and be immersed in the beauteous plots of her favorite books and films. Filled...

A filmmaker embarks on a personal journey to document her father’s old neighborhood through her own perspective. Accompanied by her...

Determining which memories are real and capturing something with a camera share a commonality: what lies outside the frame is forgotten. The moment a...

Trapped in recurring dreams of her own death, a young woman must confront the buried memory of her father’s suicide in order to finally wake...

The film examines the blurred line between the event and its subsequent interpretations, turning personal memories into a site of uncertainty.

A moving personal documentary about Danny, a friend of Kybartas who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1986. This powerful work explores the reason...

Identities attempts to describe the importance of silence in communication, of those moments when someone is making up or remembering what he is...

Through innovative 3D animation, this film follows an elderly woman’s journey through her memories as Alzheimer’s reshapes her sense of...