Unremember | Deslembro | Haifa International Film Festival

Unremember is a pleasure to watch, beautifully shot and accompanied by some treasured rock songs from the 1970s, which are an additional hint at the filmmaker’s nostalgia for this period that she lived through. However, its strength comes from somewhere else – it stems from the seamless blend of personal and societal histories

Cineuropa

Archive - Festival 35
Director: Flavia Castro
Brazil 2016
96 minutes
Portuguese, French, Spanish
Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Joana grew up in Paris surrounded by rock and literature. But in the early 80s, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, Joana moves back to the country she barely remembers, overnight and against her will. In Rio, she recovers pieces of memories from a fragmented childhood and a missing father. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana is able to write her own story in the present tense.

Flavia Castro’s feature debut is a graceful and delicate film about politics, family, coming-of-age and the power of memories.

Feature Debut