For a Pure Moment

Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.

After the end of an intense relationship, Aurora returns to the places that marked its beginning and end. While reliving good and painful memories, she confronts what she lost of herself in trying to hold onto the love. In writing a final letter, Aurora attempts to transform the end into a learning experience—and understand that letting go is also part of moving on.

After Ali suddenly leaves home, he and Simin separately try to find the reason for this separation before their memories are permanently faded.

Between memories and intimate ghosts, a narrator wanders through the haunted corners of her own memory.

Maya finds an old love letter that describes places in her city—places that have vanished or changed beyond recognition. She walks through these lost locations, guided only by the memories of someone she never knew.

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

A man becomes involved in a memory manipulation operation to try and regain lost memories. He thinks the exercise may help repair his failed marriage, but accidentally ends up with the mind of a serial killer.

After a chance encounter with someone from his past, a solitary man in New York reflects on lost connections, memory, and the quiet ache of growing apart, as he searches for meaning in the spaces between people and time.