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Women Make Waves International Film Festival 2026, No. 33, Ripples of Action

Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2025)

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

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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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Director: Lynne Sachs
Country/Region: United States
Year: 2025
Length: 83min
Section: Ripples of Action
Edition: Women Make Waves International Film Festival 2026, No. 33
Original language: English
Premiere: Asian Premiere
Format: DCP, Color and black and white
Selection: Official selection

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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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Lynne Sachs

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Lynne Sachs

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JJeffery Cheng GGuo Yumeng SSean Hanley TTiffany Refem

Lynne Sachs RRebecca Shapass MMark Street GG. Anthony Svatek

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