First days of the 1936 Spanish revolution. A catholic photographer and a militiawoman anarchist cross path in the Barcelona’s Rambla. He takes a photo. She allows him to take it. The result, the most reproduced picture of the Iberian Anarchism’s history, besides one of the most iconic pictures of the Spanish Civil War. A secular …

Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in jail. She wants to understand, forgive and support a suffering man. Billy is schizophrenic, and his worst attack left two people dead. Their epistolary prison friendship reveals the full truth about this undiagnosed and untreated mental illness. Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence …

The documentary, found on a VHS tape, recounts through the author’s experience the rebellion of the Mk3 service droids against the hegemony of humans. The work is an unprecedented case that shows history from the point of view of those who suffered it and restores dignity and humanity to the androids, often relegated to a …

Pati’s world collapses when her stolen computer becomes an object of blackmail. A hacker threatens her, and she seeks help from the legal authorities, only to finally realize that she is the only one who can find a way out. My sextortion Diary reveals the extreme vulnerability of the digital world.

The role of historians in history is key due to their ability to bring to light stories of characters which, frequently due to specific circumstances, have not received the appropriate recognition, especially in the case of women. This documentary centres around the work of historian Aïda Sánchez, which rescues the figure of Dolors Vives Rodon, …

People in their eighties and nineties, and even some centenarians, talk candidly and eloquently about love, loneliness, grief, life and death. A poetic, tender group portrait of a Danish generation slowly saying goodbye to life.

All over the course of our lives, we fall in love for different people. Teenage love, long-distance love, carnal passion, deep bond: each story is different, each experience is unique. Since when she was 16, between Paris and Rome, Chloé Barreau –filmmaker—has filmed all her lovers. While she was having a relationship, she was already …

Home Sweet Home is a film about the invisibility of domestic violence. Based on Super8 family archive, the director questions her grandmother Rose who continually dismantles the image of postwar West German family happiness. The film focuses on the discrepancy between appearance and remembered reality.

An upside-down world in which women are in power and men take care of the family. Domenico tells his story to his daughter. In a letter, he relives the joy of his daughter’s birth and childhood, the dreams of a happy family but also his sacrifices as a father.  

The work of Gabriel Ferrater (or Biel, name for which he was known for in Reus) draws directly from the experiences he lived during his childhood and teenage years. Set in the world of transition between the First World War and Spanish Civil War; full of chaos, hope and terrible moments which profoundly marked his …

A biographical documentary about the life and work of the Reus painter Marià Fortuny, showcasing his environment, his art, and recreating moments from his life. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of the painter Marià Fortuny i Marsal (Reus, 1838 – Rome, 1874), the Memorimage Festival is using this historical audiovisual …

Film which rescues the figure and work of Josep M.ª Cañellas (Reus 1856 – Paris 1902), the pioneer in instant photography of our country, forefather of photojournalism in Europe and a distinguished avant grade artist of the late 19th century Parisian bohemia. A character practically unknown yet key to understanding the change which would eventually …

On June 11th, 1955, the 24Hrs of Le Mans race became the deadliest in the history of motor sport. This turned the lives of hundreds of families upside down. Emmanuel Reyé lost two of his uncles. Today, 65 years after the tragedy, numerous questions remain despite investigation.

Italy, late 1960s. Two strangers arrive in a village in the South: the first one has a movie camera, the second one has a gun. In this godforsaken land, they will have one opportunity to change the course of history.

Manifesto is a film composed entirely of videos posted on social media by Russian children and teenagers. Through recordings, we assist different forms of how the system instals militarism and authoritarianism in kids. The film showcases the aggressive and violent consequences of oppression and new generations in Russia. Film winner of the prestigious IDFA.

The mountains of Prades, in the interior of the Camp de Tarragona, lived intensely the fight of the anti-francoist maquis. This series of three episodes deals with the resistance and follows the track of the various parties that operated in these mountains, for the pure necessity to end the civil war or for the strong …

Overnight, the Aplecs de Paretdelgada (1959-1964) become a benchmark in the cultural resistance against francoism in Catalonia. Sixty years later of the last aplec, many survivors are gathered to remember that time and one of the key moments that led to their end: the microphone cut to the cardenal Benjamín de Arriba y Castro.

Peter Perez (aka Pepi), a Viennese Holocaust survivor, and his musician friend Alfred head on a road trip across Europe towards the south of Spain, where Peter goes in search of the true sound of flamenco. Pepi wants to write his own fandango, in memory of the gypsy children that sang flamenco in the Rivesaltes …

From blurred VHS images and blurry childhood memories, Superheroes without Superpowers is an exercise of recovery, where the filmmaker processes some of the most important moments of her life and the relationship with her sick mother. The film reconstructs the most intimate of narratives in order to find what she had lost.    

The Flag is a documentary essay that documents the intensification of an isalmophobic based discourse that has become dominant in France and has declined civil rights and liberties in this country. It goes to meet those who suffer the effects and who together try to resist them.