Underplayed Gems

The Notebooks of Memory (2009)

The Notebooks of Memory poster
Directed by
Anne Aghion
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
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How it feels

This documentary focuses on people remembering and recording events from the past. It presents their personal accounts and reflections on what happened.

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What happens

Anne Aghion (born 1960) is a French-American documentary filmmaker. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Mac Dowell Colony Fellow and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellow. In 2005, she won an Emmy Award for her documentary In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies. In 2009, her film My Neighbor My Killer was Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and a nominee for Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards. Her new film,Turbulence, twelve years in the making, is completed in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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