Memory and Dictionary

A documentary on those who still remember the whaling industry in the Azores.

1932: Scars of Memory

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply lines, attack a military garrison, and take control over several towns. Retr

Butterflies Have No Memory

In the remote Philippines, the economic crisis has taken over and a group of men don't do much apart from drink. That is, until the return of a local girl who has been in Canada for years.

Flat Tire Down Memory Lane

This newly completed work – made after Johnston’s death – constructs a highly revealing portrait of the artist via interviews with his sister, Marjory (who in his later years collaborated with Daniel on his artwork and c

Horizon: How Does Your Memory Work?

You might think that your memory is there to help you remember facts, such as birthdays or shopping lists. If so, you would be very wrong. The ability to travel back in time in your mind is, perhaps, your most remarkable

A vodou memory

Marianne Lehmann, born in Switzerland in 1936, married a Haitian and moved to Port-au-Prince in 1957. Fascinated by voodoo cult objects, she began with buying them to avoid their scattering abroad. Over the years it beca

The Memory of Butterflies

Maria, a woman with a difficult childhood, and Anne, her adopted child, will face a process of family integration and learn to accept themselves.

A spot in memory

During a cathartic writing exercise, an evocation of childhood and adolescence arises in relation to the mother figure. Thus, a rhythmic text is born that is recited, recorded and made available for listening. An audiovi

In Vivid Memory, Come Again

On her 21st birthday, a heartbroken teenage girl revisits the bittersweet moments of her previous relationship before finally letting go of the past.

Memory's Gaze

The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture was held prisoner until his death in 1803. She then talks to Ai

Rwanda For Memory

Rwanda For Memory (Rwanda pour mémoire) is a 2003 documentary film about the Rwandan Genocide. Facing up to the scars left by the genocide, Samba Felix N’Diaye manages to find just the right sense of distance to film the

How Does Your Memory Work

You might think that your memory is there to help you remember facts, such as birthdays or shopping lists. If so, you would be very wrong. The ability to travel back in time in your mind is, perhaps, your most remarkable

Mueda, Memory and Massacre

Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the killing. In independent Mozambique, those inhabitants of Mueda who survived

Memory of the Land

Philosophical reflections on life and death, the continuity of life on earth, and the memories we cherish and preserve of those who have passed away. The documentary film shows post-war Latvia in ruins.

Sanity in Memory

From the beginning of the idea of ​​civilization, encompassing the ends of life, ending at the end of human intellect and the world.

The Memory of Summer

Slot in Memory

In Slot in Memory, a 2013 short from Syrian filmmaker Khaled Abdulwahed, images of war are only visible through a tiny crack in an otherwise dark frame. Abdulwahed cuts between this crack and simple footage of children f

Tourist of memory

In this journey through time and place – an Ottawa snowstorm, Niagara Falls, and the filmmaker’s childhood home - recollections come unbidden and half-articulated, of trains, marshes and wind turbines, resolving at the i

The Memory of Ingmar Bergman

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman the Finnish writer and director Jörn Donner shares his memories of his friend and collaborator. The movie is based on two as yet unpublished TV interviews w

Please Excuse My Shortterm Memory

A showcase of obscene content.