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Memory

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After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Years later, filmmaker Sandu reflects on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children -- and how healing and change are possible.

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Jessica Kiang Variety Aug 28
As a poetic, deeply cinematic recollection of that turbulent era, told in densely allusive imagery... “Memory” is already powerful. But as an evocation of all we lose to conflict, it is extraordinary. Go to Full Review Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Aug 28
3.5/5
Memory is a film about loneliness, anguish, and trauma, made from painful memories, but which transcends hatred and resentment to pose questions...and which in its own way also has something cathartic and healing about it. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Allan Hunter Screen International Aug 27
A poetic, highly personal work. Go to Full Review Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily Aug 27
Sandu puts everything she has on the screen, including herself, using brutal images that, though shocking, can’t rival the horrific reality of all the things she saw and felt in that key 10-year passage of her life. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Vladlena Sandu

Director

Amina Taisumova

Actor

Selima Agamirzaeva

Actor

Vladlena Sandu

Actor

Vladlena Sandu

Screenwriter

Yanna Buryak

Producer
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Movie Info

Synopsis After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Years later, filmmaker Sandu reflects on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children -- and how healing and change are possible.
Director
Vladlena Sandu
Producer
Yanna Buryak
Screenwriter
Vladlena Sandu
Genre
Drama, Biography
Original Language
Russian
Runtime
1h 38m