Happy nostalgia. Natsukashii tells the story of one night of remembering, as memories of a certain time, and a certain person, come flooding back.
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.
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.
José-Manuel Barata Xavier reflects on his old childhood bathtub.
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.
Years before she saw a man being swallowed by a wave, inside a swimming pool. With this event, time ceased to be linear, and in a split second her family disappeared, leaving only behind the traces of their presence. Through the window´s reflex she realises her face has changed - the face is longer and the hair; she has memories inside her head, that she doesn´t recognize. In another time, she returns to that place to try to confirm her memory.
In 'Give Time its Due,' Beatriz seeks solace in therapy for her loneliness and pain after a loss. In this journey of self-acceptance and healing, she discovers the power of expression and human connection.
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.
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.
After Ali suddenly leaves home, he and Simin separately try to find the reason for this separation before their memories are permanently faded.
Mark wakes up and does not remember what he did the previous evening and must confront the darkest parts of himself through looking at the physical evidence around his house.
Returning to his hometown one last time, a wayward love rat reignites friendships and reopens old wounds in one self-destructive weekend.
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.