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Films
14 Films
Keywords
“Memory”
x
Series
“0”
x
films with a digital version
5
films hosted on Kanopy
4
short films
3
films available on demand
7
Region
Australia
1
Central America
2
Middle and Near East
2
South America
4
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
South-East Europe
1
West Africa
2
Western Mediterranean
2
Country
Australia
1
Brazil
1
Chile
1
Colombia
1
Ghana
2
Italy
2
Japan
1
Mexico
2
Pakistan
1
Palestine
1
Peru
1
Romania
1
Syria
1
Keywords
Animation
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
3
Collective / Community identity
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Development projects
1
Elderly people
1
Environment
1
Family / Kinship
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
3
Forensic
1
Gender Role and Identity
3
Health / Health care / Healing
2
History
2
Indigenous Filmmaking
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Intergenerational relations
2
LGBTQI*
1
Life Story / Life History
2
Linguistics / Language
1
Love
1
Memory
14
x
Migration
3
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
2
Personal Narrative
1
Political Activists
2
Popular Culture
1
Post-communism
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Research methods
1
Resettlement
1
Social Conflict
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
6
Directors
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
1
Domenig, Aya
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Graham, Trevor
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Hennies, Jan-Holger
1
Huffschmid, Anne
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Plessis, Nancy du
1
Sojob, María
1
Sørensen, Tanja Wol
1
Wendl, Tobias
1
Series
not set
14
x
Country of production
Australia
1
Brazil
1
Chile
1
Colombia
1
Finland
1
Germany
2
Italy
1
Mexico
1
Pakistan
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
5
not set
1
Year of production
1994
1
1998
1
2010
1
2011
1
2015
2
2017
1
2018
3
2019
2
2020
2
Film list
The Absence of Apricots
2018
49
‘
Student
Directed by
Daniel Asadi Faezi
.
In the Hunza Valley in the northern Pakistan there is a magnificent turquoise lake. But the lake hasn’t been always there: it is the result of a massive landslide that blocked a river, causing
South Asia
Environment
Memory
Development projects
Resettlement
Aeroplane Dance
1994
58
‘
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
December 1942: US bomber ‘Little Eva’ was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. It hit a storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in Australia’s far north. Aeroplane Dance
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
Ayouni
2020
75
‘
Directed by
Yasmin Fedda
.
Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known priest based in Mar Musa monastery. Both men were active in the 2011 Syrian revolution, and witnesses to
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
Political Activists
Between Memories
2015
34
‘
Directed by
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
.
Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the
South America
Memory
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
A Colombian Family
2020
80
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
Tanja Wol Sørensen
.
A powerful mother-daughter drama is at the centre of this film. Rooted in disagreement—both personal and political—the film follows the consequences of a war that leaves them with an impossible
South America
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Intergenerational relations
Memory
Migration
Personal Narrative
Political Activists
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Conflict
The Day the Sun Fell
2015
78
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Aya Domenig
.
Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by
South-East Asia
History
Memory
Health / Health care / Healing
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Future Remembrance – Photography and Image Arts in Ghana
1998
54
‘
Directed by
Tobias Wendl
Nancy du Plessis
.
The film portrays a vibrant range of contemporary and historical images by artists and photographers in Ghana. While glancing through the history of black & white photography in Ghana, the film
West Africa
Film / Photography / Mass media
Art / Artists / Artisans
Memory
IT WAS TOMORROW
2018
53
‘
Student
Directed by
Alexandra D’onofrio
.
After living in Italy for almost ten years without documents, three Egyptian men – Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed – are suddenly awarded legal residence. As a whole new world of opportunities opens up to
Western Mediterranean
Animation
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Film / Photography / Mass media
Life Story / Life History
Memory
Migration
Research methods
Participatory / Collaborative methods
In the Light of Memory
2010
40
‘
Directed by
Alyssa Grossman
.
‘In the Light of Memory’ explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of
South-East Europe
Memory
Post-communism
Letters from Palestine
2011
35
‘
Directed by
Ludovica Fales
.
What if in your great-grandfather’s letters there is a mystery your family doesn’t want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never
Western Mediterranean
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
History
Persistence
2019
54
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
Anne Huffschmid
Jan-Holger Hennies
.
Human bodies don’t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as
Central America
Forensic
Memory
TOTE_Grandfather
2019
80
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
María Sojob
.
This film portrays an unexpected encounter between an old Tzotzil man, who is going blind, and his granddaughter, who does not remember her childhood well. The granddaughter, having grown up in the
Central America
Indigenous Filmmaking
Gender Role and Identity
Family / Kinship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Elderly people
Love
Intergenerational relations
Linguistics / Language
Memory
Tabom in Bahia
2017
52
‘
Directed by
Juan Diego Diaz
Nilton Pereira
.
There is a small community in Ghana who identify as Brazilians. Their name is the Tabom. They are the descendants of former enslaved Africans and creoles who resettled from Bahia to Ghana during the
South America
West Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Collective / Community identity
Memory
Migration
Popular Culture
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
This is My Face
2018
57
‘
Student
Directed by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
In Chile, people living with HIV fear stigma, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are going through. This is My Face explores what happens when a range of men living
South America
LGBTQI*
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Health / Health care / Healing
Gender Role and Identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
Life Story / Life History
Art / Artists / Artisans