Older Perspectives
Elders with illness-related dependency; healthy older folk rebelling against their age. From heartbreak to hilarity, the extreme diversity of ageing within film.
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- DirectorPaul CoxStarsJulia BlakeCharles 'Bud' TingwellKristine Van PellicomAndreas reconnects with Claire, rekindling their love affair after forty years apart. Complications include health risks, death, and potential impact on John.
- DirectorAnson HartfordHugh Hartford8 players with 703 years between them compete in the World over 80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. Terry (81) having been given a week to live, gets in sight of winning gold. Inge (89) has used table tennis to train her way out of the dementia ward she committed herself to. Australian legend Dorothy deLow is 100, and finds herself a mega celebrity in this rarefied world and Texan Lisa Modlich, a new-comer at 85 years old, is determined to do whatever it takes to win her first gold. This film is as much about the tenacity of the human spirit as it is a meditation on mortality.
- DirectorPaul CoxStarsSheila FloranceGosia DobrowolskaNorman KayeUplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead actress, Sheila Florance, who was in fact dying of cancer as she created what is essentially a self-portrait.
- DirectorPatricia SomersStarsDot Fisher-SmithDot Fisher-Smith is a mystical masterful artist, a war resister, an environmental activist, a community presence, a jailbird. As a great-grandmother, she chained her neck to a log truck to protest salvage logging of old growth forest. Is her life as ordinary as she claims it to be? Is ours?
- DirectorÉtienne ChatiliezStarsTsilla CheltonCatherine JacobIsabelle NantyAuntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty old bitch, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses. When the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, Danielle moves in with her great-nephew and his family. She continues using her nastiness to manipulate everyone into doing things her way until the family goes on vacation to Greece. The young housekeeper they hire to watch after her knows what Auntie is doing, and deals with her accordingly, and they begin forming respect for each other.
- DirectorTomy WigandStarsMarianne SägebrechtAnnette FrierMiriam SteinMarguerita wants to go to Rome and see the Pope. She succeeds--but with countless adventures along the way, including a charming con man, a rocker bartender granddaughter, a perpetually worrying daughter and, of course, the Pope.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsKristbjörg KjeldHilmir Snær GuðnasonGunnar EyjólfssonA film director's personal journey experiencing his mother's disappearance into the Alzheimer disease, a film with essential Fridriksson's ingredients, humour, compassion and strong visual style.
- DirectorKatia GrivotStarsRoger Van HoolAnnick Roux
- DirectorJefferson GraingerStarsRaymond BorzelliPeter DicksonRaymond is a simple man. He has lived a simple life. Having never married, he has no family and no companion. Raymond is a struggling Australian pensioner who believes he's missed his calling as a singer/ dancer but instead of sitting around at home, feeling sorry for himself, he ventures out into the city of Sydney to dance alongside street buskers. Raymond's free-style moves captivate the hearts of all who have lucky enough to enjoy his highly entertaining performances. His story is inspiring and uplifting, reminding us all to keep smiling, to live and be free.
- DirectorCristi PuiuStarsDoru AnaMonica BarladeanuAlina BerzunteanuMr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.
- DirectorJon GarañoJose Mari GoenagaStarsItziar AizpuruMariasun PagoagaJosé Ramón ArgoitiaWhere is the thin line that separates friendship from desire? After more than 50 years without seeing each other, two 70 years old women dare crossing the line.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle HuppertGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsMarcello MastroianniMichèle MorganValeria CavalliMatteo decides to take a trip across Italy to go visiting his five children.
- DirectorPatrick PoubelStarsBernard HallerMaxence PerrinNatalia DontchevaThe tale of a little boy named Cricket and his close grandfather, a true collector of memories who will pull off his dream of flying away in the most moving way.
- DirectorSantiago Carlos OvesStarsChina ZorrillaEduardo BlancoUlises DumontJaime has lost his job and has to provide for his wife, son and daughter. Pressured by this circumstances, he visits his mom, who lives in an apartment he owns, to ask her to move with him so he can sell the apartment. But she is not going to cooperate. And, to Jaime's surprise, she also has a boyfriend!
- DirectorStéphane BrizéStarsVincent LindonHélène VincentEmmanuelle SeignerAlain Evrard, a trucker who has just finished serving a prison sentence, is forced to temporarily move back to his mother Yvette's house. This forced co-habitation causes all the violence of their past relationship to re-emerge. One day, Alain accidentally discovers his mother has a brain tumor and that she has decided to shorten her suffering by resorting to assisted suicide in Switzerland.
- DirectorBecca FriedmanStarsJack HannaDana HatcherDusty LombardiA look at the world of geriatric zoo animal care, through Colo--the oldest living gorilla in captivity--on her 55th birthday.
- DirectorRené FéretStarsDominique MarcasMarion HeldJulien Féret
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaAndré LubranoBlaise FournierAgnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
- DirectorMike RauchTim RauchBrooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, remember their life together -- from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer. This remarkable couple personifies the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of every day people if we take the time to listen.
- DirectorSarah PolleyStarsJulie ChristieMichael MurphyGordon PinsentA man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsDon AmecheWilford BrimleyHume CronynWhen a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
- DirectorStephen WalkerSally GeorgeStarsJoe BenoitHelen BostonLouise CanadyA documentary on a chorus of senior citizens from Massachusetts who cover songs by Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Sonic Youth, and other unexpected musicians.