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Title: Department of Good Memories
Runtime: 5 min
Country: Canada
Director: Caroline Kiessling
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: June, 2026
Synopsis: In a department that stores good memories, an archivist finds one that refuses to be simply “good.”
Pearl’s job is simple: receive visitors, retrieve their memories, return them to the shelf after they leave. But when a memory arrives that doesn’t fit her system — tarnished where it should glow, painful where it should comfort — her orderly world cracks open. She is forced to confront the possibility that the same moment can mean entirely different things depending on who carries it.