Synopsis
Vladlena Sandu’s dramatic and poetic hybrid film Memory tells a deeply personal story of life during the Chechen war as neighbours are murdered, her family is targeted, and the capital Grozny is turned into a battlefield. It also seeks an answer to a fundamental question. How can the cycle of violence – that shapes the lives of children and is inevitably passed to the next generation – be broken?
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Credits
98 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Russian
Director
Vladlena Sandu
Vladlena Sandu
Production
Yanna Buryak for MIMESIS
Yanna Buryak for MIMESIS
Co-production
Raymond van der Kaaij for Revolver Amsterdam,
Ludovic Henry for Limitless
Raymond van der Kaaij for Revolver Amsterdam,
Ludovic Henry for Limitless
Cinematography
Liza Popova
Liza Popova
Editing
Vladlena Sandu
Vladlena Sandu
World Sales
LOCO FILMS
LOCO FILMS
Screening copy
LOCO FILMS
LOCO FILMS
Stills
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