Love stories have always been at the heart of the imaginarium of cinema. Legacies of Love ventures beyond the well known genre paradigms, exploring different facets of affective memory by interrogating significant gestures, silences and absences. It’s hard to translate the intensity of love into words, but at times the feeling can be contained in a telling glance or in the image of now empty spaces that were once the backdrop for happy memories. The films in this section are small crystals deposited on the core of vulnerability and nostalgia, returning the knife’s hilt to our hands every time, urging us to twist it in the wound. (Andreea Chiper)