Memories of the Foreign

October. 12,2023      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Revisiting places and memories of Fatma Selek, the grandmother of the filmmaker, who came to Wels, Austria, in 1973 as a guest worker. Her interview from 2012 gives insight into her experiences and struggles, such as being separated from her children for years, language barriers and the feeling of being torn between two countries. Her voice is accompanied by black and white Super 8 footage of places that shaped her life in Austria. Filmed fifty years after her arrival in Wels.

Reviews

Huievest
2023/10/12

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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PiraBit
2023/10/13

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Hadrina
2023/10/14

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Ariella Broughton
2023/10/15

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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