Memory Movies

At the end of the 80's, the city of Itacuruba, in the backlands of Pernambuco, was transferred to another locality due to the construction of a hydroelectric plant. In the new region, the city began to register many suicides, reaching a rate ten times greater than the national average. Through...

A man investigates a memory of places and people. The evidence drifts deeper and deeper into an unforgivable jungle; he might not be the true owner of his memories, his thoughts may not be of his own, it may not even be his body.

The loss of Jack's wife Katie sends him into a deep depression. Having been through a similar loss, Jack's good friend Allen must now talk him back from the brink, with the help of a mysterious gift from the night sky...

A granddaughter gives a new meaning to her grandma's death through previously unspoken memories.

Vila das Torres was a self-built community based on one of the largest urban gardens in Rio de Janeiro, below the energy towers of the Light Company and next to the train lines. Eight years after its removal for the construction of Parque Madureira, former residents report their memories.

«My grandma had a great strength and love for life which made me believe that some of us were able to become immortals and escape death. When she passed at the age of 92, her death was a surprise to me, which I was not prepared for. The cinema has the immense power of creating the illusion of...

When the electricity goes out on hot summer nights, there is no refuge for the family other than the roof of the house, these nights have turned into a distant past that carries many memories full of nostalgia

Pia Yona Massie's Sayonara Super 8 uses personal archival footage to ask questions about the fragile nature of memory, human relationships and the foibles of the medium itself.

Xulia was getting treatment at a rehab center back in 1985, when something happened that changed her life. Years after that, she published 'Imperfect Future', a memoir turned into a book. This short film is a dive in what's left of all that.

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother.

Life is like a movie. Whether it's short or long, it begins somewhere and ends unexpectedly somewhere else. We ought to watch it all involuntarily.

Memories, mistakes and regrets of what could have been?

Real memories get confused with invented ones, while the movie's director investigates his parent's past in a work that wanders between fiction and documentary.

After All is said and done. A man clears out his childhood home, remembering past conversations.

A recollection of moments between a kid and his granduncle that leads to a personal exploration.

In this short film, a mysterious character goes on a journey to the back of his mind on the night of his birthday.

Lost in the blur of becoming, a soul learns that what fades is not always gone, but merely waiting to be seen anew.