Born in Crimea and raised in war-torn Chechnya, director Vladlena Sandu looks back at her past through fragments: family secrets, rumours, and the stories no one was allowed to tell. Using reconstructions and evocative, poetic imagery that recalls a childhood growing up in the Soviet Union, Memory is as much a personal reckoning as it is an ode to all children who grow up under siege, trying to find a language for the violence, destruction and war around them.
For her feature-length debut, Sandu collected memories from her friends, as well as her own, to create a film that is as confronting as it is healing to watch.
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