Amaro: O Colégio da Memória

Mar 11, 2023

1h 35m

★ 10.0

What memory loves becomes eternal

Overview

About to turn 100 years old, Santo Amaro School closed its doors in 2020, amid the pandemic, leaving former students in deep sorrow. The story of the school is now told by different generations of students, teachers, nuns and employees, who return to the school building to remember their time over there: an unreachable past, which, through memories, becomes present once again.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Nélida Piñon

Isabella Taviani

Francisco Vitti

Maria Amélia Amaral Palladino

Rapha Pinheiro

Rafael Mattoso

Irmã Theresinha Barbosa

Zeny Soutto Mayor

Irmã Maria Therezinha

Beatriz Pittas

Cristiane Boechat

Fátima Oliveira

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3.2

E

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The city and its parking lots.

6.1

Return

May 8, 2025

No overview available.

0.0

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0.0

All this Roughness

Sep 2, 2020

An unnamed passer-by is forced to trace a circular route inside an abandoned tram station, facing loss and time. The broken walls act as a channel, transmitting fragmentary, blurred and analogical memories.

0.0

Kindergarten

Jun 9, 1963

One day in a kindergarten classroom at Van Horne Public School in Montreal. The teacher encourages children to turn their curiosity into questions and organizes group activities and play periods.

0.0

L'école de demain

Dec 9, 2020

No overview available.

6.0

Outside

Feb 18, 2018

The film explores the turbulent lives of homeless persons in Cologne, Germany. Through their personal belongings the homeless share with the viewer their memories and emotions, and provide insight into the secrets of survival on the street.

4.5

Forms of Forgetting

Jun 17, 2023

Nesrin and Erdem talk about their relationship, which they don’t remember in exactly the same way. Çevik’s visually stunning essay uses their conversations to forge a pensive treatise on what it means to forget, where word and image play an equal role.

6.8

First Case, Second Case

Feb 1, 1979

A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does not own up to talking behind the master's back.

0.0

Cycle of Memory

Jul 18, 2022

Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his life... until Mel lost his memory to Alzheimer's. Now over seventy-five years later, his grandchildren set out to recreate his life-changing journey and find those memories before they slip away. Cycle of Memory explores the importance of intergenerational connection, healing painful pasts, and leaving a meaningful time capsule for the future.

Cast

Nélida Piñon

Isabella Taviani

Francisco Vitti

Maria Amélia Amaral Palladino

Rapha Pinheiro

Rafael Mattoso

Irmã Theresinha Barbosa

Zeny Soutto Mayor

Irmã Maria Therezinha

Beatriz Pittas

Cristiane Boechat

Fátima Oliveira

Amaro: O Colégio da Memória

Overview

Genres

Amaro: O Colégio da Memória Trailers

Cast

Nélida Piñon

Isabella Taviani

Francisco Vitti

Maria Amélia Amaral Palladino

Rapha Pinheiro

Rafael Mattoso

Irmã Theresinha Barbosa

Zeny Soutto Mayor

Irmã Maria Therezinha

Beatriz Pittas

Cristiane Boechat

Fátima Oliveira

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