Guilty of having allowed greedy businessmen to take over her city and wipe the memories of its residents clean, mayor Teo conspires with a motley bunch of outsiders to set things right. Armed with homemade hallucinogens, the gang sets out to free citizens from their painless, amnesiac existence. 

Mila van der Linden’s neon-drenched dystopian fantasy Memory Dealers presents a tongue-in-cheek political fable in which voracious non-conformists liberate a blissful, sober society that are under the thrall of a corporate technocracy. The film’s emphatic visual style, influenced by both graphic novels and silent cinema, reflects an attitude of pure play that belies the repressive universe of the narrative. Shot in psychedelic colours and scored to trance music, Van der Linden’s intoxicating film invites the viewer on a literal trip down memory lane.

– Srikanth Srinivasan