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.

​PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Mimesis, Limitless, Revolver Amsterdam

“…strikingly illustrated..” “…an anguished, urgent, mesmerizing portrait of self-replicating generational trauma.”  – Variety

“hypnotic prose poem”  – Deadline Hollywood

“extraordinarily inventive, with a wealth of remarkable visual and narrative ideas illustrating a sensitive, intelligent and poignant autobiographical story.”  – Cineuropa

“A work of unbridled ingenuity and unrelenting intimacy.”
“Hypnotic, challenging and never anything less than unforgettable, Memory is a staggering achievement, and one of the most ambitious, daring projects of the past decade.” – International Society of Cinephiles