MEMORY GAMES is a 90-minute animated feature documentary for international theatrical/broadcast release that follows memory-athletes from Germany, Sweden, China and the USA. The story-line of MEMORY GAMES tracks our super-brains in a classic sports-narration from the San Diego Xtreme to the World-Championship in Sichuan. Unlike other sports disciplines, the challenges are purely mental. To see and feel the inner worlds of the athletes, MEMORY GAMES uses animation to bring the memorization techniques to life, enlightening and entertaining us in the process and ultimately showing us that super brains are - only human.Depicting the inner worlds with animation is a key asset of MEMORY GAMES. To master the enormous data-loads, our athletes use a technique akin to the mnemonic rhymes of our school-days. There, we used rhymes to practice our spelling: Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move = RHYTHM. Memory athletes do the same using images instead of words. Connecting mental images of things they know – a house, a person, anything – with the data they memorize, the athletes turn any given sequence of events into impromptu stories that are visual, funny and absurd. The technique itself is simple and with a little training, everybody can remember! MEMORY GAMES will use different animation styles for each protagonist. Over the course of this year, we will get to know the central characters intimately: why they became involved, how they do it, who they are and what memory means to them. Can there be a “normal” life for a super-brain? They include a German world-champion who is restricted to a wheelchair by a muscle wasting disease; a young Swede who has taken the stage by storm as a potential new Master of Names; and a young child from China who, at the age of eleven, is competing with athletes thrice her age. Ultimately, on the journey to a championship, we will experience how memory is at the heart of what makes us human. Everybody wants to remember – and everybody can.