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Burning Memories

2021 · 80 min

A quiet, painful excavation of buried memory, carried by a solitary accordion and a long walk through the desert.

Directed by: Alice Schmid
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Alice Schmid

Overview: At the age of 16, Alice was a victim of abuse. Fifty years later, this repressed experience unexpectedly makes its way back into her conscience. How is it possible to repress an incident for one’s entire life? How did it happen that she made films and wrote books always about children and violence? Alice walks with her accordion through the desert, searching for answers, looking at a phenomenon that affects many women in a similar or related way.

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Directed by: Alice Schmid
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Alice Schmid

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: trauma
memory
healing
identity
isolation
Places: wilderness
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	0
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	0
Tension	4
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	9

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