Some nights split a life into before and after. "More Than I Remember" opens on one of them: a 14-year-old girl named Mugeni, asleep in her home in southeastern Congo, jolted awake by the sound of bombs.
What is More Than I Remember about?
The 2022 animated short, directed by Amy Bench, follows Mugeni as her family flees into the surrounding forests, each person scattering in a different direction to improve the odds that someone survives. In the chaos she loses sight of everyone she knows and has to keep moving without them. Told in fourteen minutes, the film compresses a single night of displacement into images rather than exposition, giving weight to what a child carries away from a home she cannot return to.
About the cast
The voice cast includes Vicky Krieps, Gaspard Ulliel, Bjørn Floberg, Sophie Langevin, Valérie Bodson, Jérémy Barbier d'Hiver, Marion Cadeau and Yacine Sif El Islam, an ensemble drawn from European film and television rather than dedicated animation performers. Their presence signals how seriously the short was treated on the festival circuit, where animated documentaries this concise rarely draw a lineup of that caliber.
Context & significance
Amy Bench directs, working in a genre — animated documentary — that lets a filmmaker render a real account without placing an actor's face over painful memory. The United States production sits alongside a wave of short-form animation that has used the format to carry stories from conflict zones to festival audiences who might never see a feature-length treatment of the same events. At fourteen minutes, the film asks little of a viewer's schedule and a great deal of their attention.
Watching More Than I Remember on Ktime
"More Than I Remember" streams on K-Time with a free account login, no subscription required to browse the page itself. The film is available with Persian dubbing as well as Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose to watch it fully in Farsi or follow the original soundtrack with translated text — part of K-Time's wider effort to give the Iranian diaspora a properly localized way to watch acclaimed short-form work like this.