Film archive, 2025

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

Name: Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Released: 2025
Duration: 83 min

Director Lynne Sachs

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Since 1990, filmmaker Lynne Sachs has kept hundreds of business cards—small souvenirs of brief encounters with strangers, friends, and mentors. She transforms this personal archive into a poetic investigation of how people leave invisible marks on one another. Inspired by the forensic principle that every contact leaves a trace, Sachs follows the stories behind these names, revisiting encounters with a therapist, an artist, and others who have shaped her life. Blending documentary, personal essay, and experimental imagery, the film becomes a playful and moving meditation on memory, identity, and human connection.

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Film details

Director: Lynne Sachs
Country/Region: United States
Year: 2025
Length: 83min
Original language: English

Director

Lynne Sachs

American experimental filmmaker and poet based in Brooklyn, New York. Blending archives, letters, poetry, and music, her essay films explore memory, feminism, and the materiality of cinema, tracing the intersections of personal experience, history, and political reality.

From Women Make Waves International Film Festival 2026, No. 33

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Director

Lynne Sachs

Producer

Lynne Sachs

Cinematography

Jeffery Cheng Guo Yumeng Sean Hanley Tiffany Refem

Lynne Sachs Rebecca Shapass Mark Street G. Anthony Svatek

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Every Contact Leaves a TraceWomen Make Waves International Film Festival 2026, No. 33Ripples of Action

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Women Make Waves International Film Festival, 2026Ripples of Action, Official selection

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Director

Lynne Sachs

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