In the documentary 'Memories of a Penitent Heart,' a filmmaker uncovers the truth her family hid of her queer, AIDS-afflicted uncle's life.
At times, Cecilia Aldarondo's documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart plays like a slideshow put together by a loving family.
These questions strike at the heart of Mr. McElwee's latest documentary, "Photographic Memory".
"Leviathan," which looks and sounds like no other documentary in memory, is likely to be one of the most talked-about art films of the year; it prompted both raves and walkouts at Locarno.
Another jolting documentary, "The Memory of Justice" (1976), probed moral issues raised by the Nuremburg trial, Vietnam and Algeria.
Setting the stage for discussions on how to pursue a formal end to the conflict will be two documentary films, "Memory of Forgotten War" and "The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger," tracing the tragic fates of war survivors and families separated by the ideological cleaving of their homeland.
In 1980, Klimov also made a documentary in memory of his wife, titled "Larissa". After his success with "Come and See," Klimov tried in the early 1990s to work with Hollywood on an epic movie adapted from Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita". But it failed to materialize, and Klimov abandoned filmmaking, a saddened man.
If included in the documentary, such memories are destined for national exposure.
His documentary "Whispering Memories" tells the story of ethnic Armenians in a village called Geben, who embraced Islam (presumably to avoid death at the hands of Ottoman forces).
One of Mr. Awam's most recent projects on the war was a 24-minute, Arabic-language documentary called "Memories at a Checkpoint".
