The Guardian of Memory

According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mexico became one of the deadliest conflict zones in the world in 2017, second only to Syria. In 2008, the Mexican government sent the army to Chihuahua on

Acteal: Barbarie Y Memoria

Tzotzil indigenous survivors of the events of December 22, 1997, in the Acteal displacement camp, municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas, recount the murder of 45 of their people, including pregnant women and children.

Witnesses of memory

This documentary film is the continuation of “Digging Out the Truth” and it shows the mourning of the families of those who were, until recently, missing. During this second investigation the team discovered more graves

Guardiões da Memória

La memoria de los espejos

"The Memory of Mirrors" is an Argentine short film directed by Facundo Salomón and Ezequiel Rossi of Misil Producciones, starring Tomás Viola and Osvaldo Laport. Written by Viola, the screenplay is based on his contempor

Carga visual: Memoria colectiva

This documentary tells the story of Richard Picón, an artist with a disability who reminisces about his time on stage, as well as the story of how Capaz Perú, the association that produced this film, was founded. It prem

O Outro Lado da Memória

In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Principal photography went on for nine years, but the production was shut dow

Memória em Verde e Rosa

The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.

The Recourse of Memory

Ten years after the Law of Expiration, this documentary analyses the historical background of Uruguay's recent past. It is a survey of the controversy stirred up in society by the fact that, thanks to this law, the armed

Memória do Sonho

Memory of the Dream

Retratando en la memoria

Belgha, the alive memory

Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the Saharaui culture and identity, because he knows that a nation without cultu

Pelos sabores da memória

Rebellion of Memory

Former child soldier Carlitos wants to unite his wartime parents. But Tania and Shogún are no regular parents. Carlitos chose them as his mother and father although they were enemies in the Peruvian civil war.

Ensayo para la memoria

A search for those fragments of memory that cannot be contained in a photo, which symbolizes the infinite exercise of writing memory.

Memory of a Displaced Body

A ritual in the form of a film essay that explores, through collage, the sense of exile experienced during early childhood migration. It examines the primal configuration of detachment from one’s homeland, family environ

Gol a la Memoria

This documentary rescues how Santiago's Estadio Nacional was used as a detention and torture center by the Chilean authorities in a tale in which memory, music and sport are all intertwined

Banfield: Well of Memory and Justice

This micro-documentary is a chapter of the series Who I am?, which proposes a reflective journey through moving testimonies, emblematic places and the struggle for human rights, truth and justice. In the former clandesti

Aio, Somos Memoria, Tenemos Recuerdos

Memory and memories of the last years of a 101-year life.

In the Expectation of Memory

Longing for a missed connection, a ghostly link to the past appears.