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Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, revolutionized storytelling by narrating its entire plot in reverse order, earning critical acclaim and Oscars. However, several movies before Memento, such as Happy End, Betrayal, and 2 Friends, had already perfected the art of reverse storytelling, showcasing the changing notions of love, friendship, and growing up. Peppermint Candy, released just a year before Memento, used reverse chronology to tell an epic tale of a man's life and serve as a metaphorical documentation of a changing South Korea.

Christopher Nolan’s breakout hit Memento felt groundbreaking in its time for narrating its entire storyline in reverse order, taking first-time viewers by surprise. Based on the short story Memento Mori by his brother Jonathan Nolan, the 2000 psychological thriller followed the disturbed life of Guy Pearce’s Leonard Shelby, an insurance investigator with short-term memory loss. Clinging on to the fragments of his memory through Polaroid photographs and tattoos,...

Spanish company Soul Pictures has boarded international sales on Indian filmmaker Prasun Chatterjee’s debut feature “Two Friends” (“Dostojee”).

Set in 1992-93, when Hindu-Muslim tensions escalated in India in the aftermath of the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the Bombay bomb blasts and percolated down to a remote village on the India-Bangladesh border, the film follows the friendship of two eight-year-old boys. Palash, the son of a Hindu Brahmin and Safikul, whose father is a Muslim weaver, are best friends, but fate intervenes.

The film world premiered at the 2021 BFI London Film Festival, played at the Dhaka International Festival and will play at the Goteborg Film Festival from this Friday. At Greece’s Olympia International Film Festival for children and young people, Arif Shaikh won the award for best child’s performance in a feature film. Previously, it participated at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum and at...