After a premonition of an unusual bird, a father loses his voice. His daughter undertakes a search to rediscover him, through an intimate narrative that explores the past, the new facets and the silences of a man who is no longer the same.
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 of an exsanguinated population in search of normality emerge memories of the city, haunted by destruction, disfigurement and loss. A deeply moving film, a painful echo of the absurdity of war and the strength of human beings.
The desolation of vast retail spaces is not so far off from the decay of one's memories.
A man leaves his house for a stroll while his shadow stays back.
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.
José-Manuel Barata Xavier reflects on his old childhood bathtub.
While their village is threatened to be demolished once again by the Israeli army, Khaled and his best friend Nema the goat undertake to help Abu Mariam to recover his memory
Charlie and Rachel, two high school sweethearts, reconnect at a natural history museum, all while a narrator watches carefully.
David, a successful therapist, is the creator of a never-before-used method in modern psychology: a device that allows him to alter the most painful memories of his patients. His wife, Lucia, is the victim of a strange disease that will shortly end her life. The solution for David's plight appears in the shape of Sofia, a patient of David's who asks him to use his machine to rewrite her entire life.
An abstract exploration of memory and loss.
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Neo recalls his wife two days before his departure to Spain, however, later that night he dreamed of his passing wife - Caroline. No one knows how Neo would perceive the message as he tells all his concerns to his best friend - Brad, in an unspeakable manner. In the end, except knowing the fact that Neo dies in a car crash, no one knows more than what he was thinking at that moment and Brad would obtain the most information among all other characters, among the audience like you and me. In this sense, the unspeakable secret is forever buried and the woe of silence will pass on.
A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic architecture. Music as a tool, transcriptions of YouTube tutorials as poetry, percussion exercises as descriptions of reality.
Memory, love, and mental health are explored in this hybrid-fiction-cinema-play about two adolescents that decide to escape from the world around them, by none other than locking themselves away in an old projector room at the Cinematheque.
After Ali suddenly leaves home, he and Simin separately try to find the reason for this separation before their memories are permanently faded.
A romance is played in reverse, revealed through memories brought on by improvisational music.
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 individual and collective identity. When everything that's left of history are memories, how are invisible wounds healed? Yurei goes through different zones in Mexico towards an exploration of memory.