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Memoria

China, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, Thailand and United Kingdom, 2021

Film
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A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogotá, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.

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Collection

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Credits

director

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

costume designer

Catherine Rodríguez

producer

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Charles de Meaux

Diana Bustamante

Keith Griffiths

Simon Field

production company

185 Films

Anna Sanders Films

ARTE

Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation

Bord Cadre Films

Burning Blue

CNC

DFI

Eficine

Field of Vision

Hubert Bals Fund

Illuminations Films

Kick the Machine

Labo

L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde

Louverture Films

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International

Neon

Piano

Proimagenes Colombia

Purin Foundation

Rediance

Schortcut Films

Sovereign Films

The Match Factory

Xstream Pictures

ZDF

ZDF/Arte

production design

Angélica Perea

writer

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Duration

02:16:00

Production dates
2021

On other websites

View at memoria.film

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-511819

Language

English

Subject categories

Drama

Fantasy

Mystery

TMDB-Movie

511819

Wikidata

Q67087116

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