Grandmother Movies

Made during confinement, "In My Room" plunges us into the poignant story of a woman at the twilight of her life, through recordings of the director's...

The poor shepherd boy Michal signs up for service at the royal castle as a gardener's apprentice. He soon learns his trade well, but he also learns...

A young girl and her visiting Abuela are forced to connect, despite the language barrier that separates them.

A sensitively look at a grandmother, who embodies cultural, familly and social values.

A grand-mother replaces her old companion robot by a more recent one. But things won’t go as expected…

A grandmother and her grandson navigate love and fame, while crossing paths with Baron Frankenstein.

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...

A short documentary on a grandson returning home to visit his aging grandmother who was crying to see him on the phone.

"Barbara Hammer's Optic Nerve is a powerful personal reflection on family and aging. Hammer employs filmed footage which, through optical printing...

Haja Fatma, a mother to eight children, tells the tale of family life in Tripoli during the Libyan Revolution. Women, young and old, all contributed...

A filmmaker follows her grandparents’ daily life after her chain-smoker and alcoholic grandmother is forced to stop drinking beer for a month.

This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for...

Teta Kaabour is an 83-year old family matriarch and sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti quarter. She’s been gripped as of late by the...

Ariane's grandmother often visits her in her dreams. Together, they wander through unknown nocturnal landscapes. In this dreamlike short film, where...

As the months pass through her, Mai gives us a glimpse into old age that explores between being abandoned and being belonged, passing the time and...

A grandson shows his grandmother how to navigate an iPad 2 full of clues for solving a puzzle. Over a phone call, she recites an email she wrote...

To process grief, a young adult revisits fragments of their late grandmother’s life to restore the version of their own inner child when she...