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A PERSONAL GIFT

Create a memory film from your photos

One gift. Your memories. A real film.

Choose the moments you share and arrange them into a story that is easy to follow. This guide helps you prepare memories for a personal film.

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Several generations exploring old photos and family letters in a bright room
The secret family archive

What would you like to remember?

Begin with a moment you both recognize. Build around it with photos and memories rather than a list of general compliments.

Memory film or gift film

A photo story gives several memories room to unfold. A gift film template follows its own story. Compare the two approaches and choose what suits your occasion.

FILM STORIES

Which film gift feels right for this person?

Do not settle for just any template. Find the story that immediately brings this person and your shared moments to mind.

Who is the film for?
What should stay with them afterwards?

1–12 of 33 film stories

Several generations exploring old photos and family letters in a bright room

An old photo, a puzzle, and the whole family tries to solve it.

The secret family archive

A photo without a name or an old heirloom raises questions. The family tells its version of the story, and a familiar object links them. At the end you show who passes the archive on.

A lovely fit for
For families who want to discover their history together and keep it as a gift for parents, grandparents or siblings.
Your gift becomes
A curious family film in which everyone asks, tells and listens.
Family learning from one another across generations in a bright home and garden

I still do this little thing exactly the way you showed me.

What you taught us

Three things you taught us become visible in real experiences. Then we show how we do them today. At the end we thank you in person and pass it on ourselves.

A lovely fit for
For children, grandchildren and other close people who want to say thank you to someone on a birthday or just because.
Your gift becomes
A personal film that shows what of you lives on in us.
Three generations listening to family recordings together in a bright living room

Old words, a new question, and suddenly everyone is talking.

Words from Three Generations

A question from the youngest meets words handed down in the family, read by a narrator. Photos and today's answers connect the generations, and the youngest answer at the end.

A lovely fit for
For families who want to bring several generations together in a personal gift.
Your gift becomes
A family film that reveals what the generations share and where they differ.
Family remembering a loved one in a bright kitchen, green garden and warm seaside

In some places we still feel you very close.

The places that remind us of you

Places you visited together remind you of a loved one. Your photos and voices show how they were there, what you did there and what of them has stayed in those places.

A lovely fit for
For families and friends who want to keep places and memories of a person who has died with dignity.
Your gift becomes
A quiet film that shows how the person lives on in your everyday life.
The recipe at daybreak: One real family recipe leads through aromas, hands and memories to a new meal shared together.

The recipe card is back on the table.

We cook the recipe again

You cook an old family recipe again, with the real recipe card and the ingredients. While cooking, you share memories and kitchen tricks. In the end, several generations sit around the table.

A lovely fit for
For families who are thinking of someone who has died, for example on the anniversary of their death or at a family gathering.
Your gift becomes
A calm memorial film that goes from the recipe to the laid table.
The laughter we still share: Real family stories move from the first smile to warm and respectful remembrance.

Remember when? And we are smiling again.

The story we still laugh about

Relatives tell a true, funny story, each from their own point of view. Then come a favorite photo, small habits and a new group photo.

A lovely fit for
For relatives and friends who want to keep the funny side of someone who has died.
Your gift becomes
A warm film that moves from laughter to quiet remembering.
The heirloom gets a new stitch: Confirmed traces, different memories and a present-day repair reveal what a family chooses to preserve.

The old piece is whole again, and the new stitches tell their part.

Our heirloom gets repaired

A family heirloom such as a quilt, a tool or a keepsake is carefully repaired. Old photos, signs of wear and family memories are added. The repair stays visible.

A lovely fit for
For parents or grandparents, for a family celebration or when an heirloom is handed to the next generation.
Your gift becomes
A warm family film about a rescued keepsake and the people it has been with for years.
In the same frame again: In the same frame again stays with what the photographs, objects and speakers can actually establish.

Old photos, same places, a new picture of you.

Us again, in the same place

You visit the places where photos of you were taken years ago and stand there once more just the same way. The pictures from then and now sit side by side and show what has changed and what has stayed.

A lovely fit for
For couples who want to recreate old photos for their anniversary at the places where they were taken.
Your gift becomes
A film of earlier and current couple photos that ends with a new photo of you.
Our manual for finding each other again: Our manual for finding each other again begins with photographs and voices selected by the people involved.

You wrote your best instructions yourselves.

Our handbook for everyday life as two

Your personal handbook for everyday life as a couple: a break when things get tight, real listening, an inside joke to laugh about and a new rule that you write down together today.

A lovely fit for
For couples who want to show, with warmth and humour, how they are there for each other day to day.
Your gift becomes
A playful film like a handbook for two, ending with a gesture from today and your own words.
The words we carry: The words we carry connects approved material with a newly recorded message from the people involved.

Some sentences bring a whole person back.

The things you always said

The typical sayings of a loved one appear in familiar handwriting. For each one you tell in which situation it was said, whether advice, a joke or comfort.

A lovely fit for
In memory of someone who has died, on the anniversary of their death or at a memorial gathering, for family and friends.
Your gift becomes
A quiet memorial film in which the family passes the sayings on in their own voices.
Our colors become one: Our colors become one places today’s recordings beside approved photographs and keeps both clearly recognisable.

Every piece of fabric brings a memory with it.

A memory banner made of our fabrics

Everyone in the family chooses a fabric or a color and briefly says why. Together you sew or lay the fabrics into a banner, with open spaces where words are missing.

A lovely fit for
For relatives and friends who, after a death, want to make a keepsake together from fabrics they chose themselves.
Your gift becomes
A quiet film from a single fabric with its story to the finished banner that you stand in front of together.
Illustration for the film story: The chalk map of our childhood

The old play paths are back, and today’s children draw new ones.

Our childhood games in chalk

Adults draw the playing fields of their childhood on the ground in chalk and explain the rules. Today’s children try the paths and invent their own versions. An old photo shows how it used to be.

A lovely fit for
For families or former playmates who want to redraw and try out games from their childhood with children.
Your gift becomes
A cheerful film about old and new games that ends on one shared chalk field.

FILM + PRINTABLE KEEPSAKE

The film becomes a gift you can hold, too

Alongside the film, choose a personal PDF made for the recipient—not production notes, but words worth keeping.

Create film and keepsake
personal letter

Your own words shaped as a letter made for this person.

VIDEOMENTO · PDFpersonal keepsake certificate

A personal tribute for a birthday, milestone or shared achievement.

VIDEOMENTO · PDFpersonal poem

An original poem inspired by your memories and message.

VIDEOMENTO · PDForiginal song lyrics

Original words for a personal song—without copying protected lyrics or melodies.

VIDEOMENTO · PDF

FAQ

Questions before you begin

What does a memory film show?

Photos from different years, such as childhood, family, trips and celebrations, from back then to today.

Can I use old printed photos?

Yes. Photograph or scan them and upload the images.

Who is a memory film for?

For parents, grandparents, partners or friends, for a birthday, an anniversary or as a keepsake for the family.

Guides

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Who came to mind just now?

Start with that person. Choose a story and turn your shared moments into a film gift with a personal keepsake.

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