A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
37 year old sales manager Iwatsu is so caught up in work, he's unable to truly live his life. One night while looking at his graduation album on his phone, he receives a sudden call from a girl named Kana. He's taken to his hometown Kobe, where he lived as a teenager. Slowly, by way of Kana, Iwatsu's past is resuscitated.
In Cyprus, Olivia takes her mother on a summer road trip in an attempt to reconnect as the early onset of dementia begins to affect their relationship.
An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict boarding school.
Tomas, a young actor, tries to balance the young adult lifestyle: relationships, parties and a career. At a party he randomly reconnects with his first love, Emma. Strong feelings of love and regret return for both of them. The timing of their meeting leaves him questioning what growing up means and how our decisions affect us.
Short experimental film in black & white. A young girl learns to appreciate her beauty through the help of a mysterious stranger... Will this be the key to her happiness?
Following a hard break up, Cesar feels nothing. On the day of his 30th birthday, he asks one thing and one thing only, from the people he meets: their testimonial on unconditional love in front of his camera. Throughout his interviews the young artist tries to understand a question that haunts him: how to love?
Childhood best friends Eelu and Manu waste their last afternoon together trapped in the local beauty parlour, drinking, napping and fighting.
An isolated teenager explores the past, his late father, and unstable memory through the use of celluloid on his 16th birthday.
"A young artist presents his last show. While the audience watches the story of everything, he struggles to let go."
Harriet finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport her back in time – literally. While she relives the past through romantic memories of her former boyfriend, her time travelling collides with a burgeoning new love interest in the present. As she takes her journey through the hypnotic connection between music and memory, she wonders – even if she could change the past, should she?
Benteveo
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Javier discovers an old camera in his home's garage along with some undeveloped 8mm film reels that hide a hidden past his mother does not want to remember.
"Nostalgia of Everything", the second short film experiment in the Experimental Test trilogy, blends fragments of the director’s personal past with newly filmed material. It features scenes originally shot as memories, never intended for a film and later combined with a few moments captured specifically for this project. As with the first entry in the trilogy (Days, Months, Years and Nothing Else), all visuals were filmed quickly using a phone camera, under natural light, without any formal setup. The monologue was written during post-production, crafted to emotionally resonate with the imagery and the atmosphere shaped by the non-original soundtrack, Mystery Man by Terje Rypdal.
Australia, 2043. After his invention of glasses which immerse users in their own memories, Frank Stewart grapples with the decisions of his past and the effects they are having on the future.
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town
An aging screen icon gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville, Tenn., sending him on a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.