Olas de Recuerdo

Personal Documentaries by Bay Area Women Directors

Please join us for the Olas de Recuerdo SF premiere and a showcase of four personal documentaries by women Bay Area women, followed by a Q&A moderated by Gabriela Pelsinger. Tickets are FREE and open to the public!

Olas de Recuerdo (2024)
Director: Naomi García Pasmanick
Synopsis: As right-wing militarism rises in the West, filmmaker Naomi Garcia turns to the past and excavates the antifascist struggles of her Galician family during the Spanish Civil War to understand the present.
Running Time: 30m

Sites of Memory and Recovery: A Black San Francisco Story in Dance (2024)
Director: Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin
Synopsis: Memory and place combine with movement and storytelling to unlock the nuances of the Black experience in San Francisco.
Running Time: 9m 41s

My Name is Lai (2021)
Director: Lucy Saephan
Synopsis: Lai, a Mien American elder, shares her memories as a refugee survivor of war in hopes to heal invisible wounds and not be forgotten.
Running Time: 7m

Still waters (2023)
Director: Aurora Brachman
Synopsis: Through a series of extraordinarily honest and intimate conversations, filmmaker Aurora Brachman examines the intergenerational fallout of experiences her mother endured as a child. Together, they forge a path forward that offers them a new beginning.
Running Time: 12m