Program 15-17 December 2023, Berlin




Friday 15.12.2023
17:00

 

Opening speech by Sophia Tabatadze (Grandmother Film festival) and Ivanka Jagec (CrossKultur)

 

How My Grandmother Became A Chair 

Nicolas Fattouh 

9'55 DE/LB 2020 

A grandmother loses her five senses, one after the other, until she transforms into a wooden chair. 

 

House of Dolls 

Tudor Platon 

68' RO 2020 

House of Dolls is an exploration of a special universe: an annual vacation of a bunch of 70-year-old ladies. 

 

Opening drinks and time to enjoy the photo exhibition with the theme Grandmother by Gela Megreladze and listen to the podcast by Patrycia Rozwora with the interview with her Grandmother in the framework of "Kitchen Conversations". During the festival you can also listen to the podcast Patrycia Rozwora did about the previous Grandmother Film Festival in Rotterdam in 2022. 

 

 

Friday 15.12.2023

20:00

 

My Grandmother Beijing 

Mats Grorud 

9'8 NO 2008 

The modernisation of Being is told through the eves of a young boy, playing with his old wrinkly grandmother. 

 

Perennial 

Xinvue Liv 

14'30 CA 2021 

In this film, grandma's voice comes alive through the movements of a dancer. 

 

Julia 

Diane Barbé 

13'30 DE/HRIAL 2018 

Julia lives in and travels with her converted van. 

 

Maman. Maman. Maman 

Lucia Margarita Bauer 

37' DE 2019

An increasingly absurd story of a woman who. after her death, embarks on a journey that eventually becomes an odyssey.  

 

Q and A with the filmmaker Lucia Margarita Bauer , the maker of Maman. Maman. Maman 

 

 

 

Saturday 16.12.2023

16:00

 

Sisters 

Daria Vetrova 

15'52 LV 2018

Inseparable twins, Astrida and Rasma have spent their whole lives together, and mostly identify themselves with the word "sister." 

 

What Chairs remember 

Inna Kulishova 

10'55 GE 2020 

A fragmented story of one person in one family in one apartment over the years. 

 

Looming 

Irina Rurua

6' GE 2019 

An expectation of death is the main feeling that unites three female characters of this film 

 

Holidays 

Shorena Tevzadze 

15' GE 2019 

A grandmother's house, where the filmmaker used to spend her summer holidays, always seemed scary and mysterious to her. 

 

Dreams 

Dimitry Miasnikov 

23'45 GE 2006

A film about the challenging life of a grandma, whose dreams never came true.   

 

Marie und Hubert 

Sonya Schoenberger 

18' DE/CH 2000

From sunrise to sunset, Marie und Hubert occupy themselves without sharing many words with each other.   

 

Q and A with the filmmaker Sonya Schoenberger, the maker of Marie und Hubert 

 

 

Saturday 16.12.2023

20:00

 

Faith, Hope, Love 

Katia Fedulova 

97' DE 2017 

Katia Fedulova left Russia when she was 18. She returns home with one big question: are there still heroines in Putin's Russia? 

 

Q and A with the filmmaker Katia Fedulova, the maker of Faith, Hope, Love 

 

 

 

Sunday 17.12.2023 

14:00

 

We're Pregnant 

Razvan Mihai Badea 

22' RO 2018 

Margareta invites three guys over for lunch in order to choose a husband and make her grandma happy. 

 

I Could Be Her She Could Be Me 

Delphine Kermorvant 

2'30 FR/DE 2012 

What's hidden behind a woman's smile. 

 

Granny As An Apple 

Ani Arveladze 

8'30 GE 2018 

A granddaughter tells the story of her grandmother, but the grandmother does not play by the rules of her 

film-maker granddaughter. 

 

The Esperance of Will 

Rene Turtledove 

8' LV 2017 

This grandmother says goodbye to her late husband and her dog and takes off towards the top of the mountain. 

 

The School Notebook 

Morgane Frund 

5'35 CH 2020

In 1939 12-year-old Lucienne writes to her future granddaughter and in 2020, Morgane replies to her grandmother, who has since passed away. 

 

Granny and Fly 

Bas de Leijer 

2'48 NL 2005

A short fictional film about the confrontation of two different experiences of time. The two worlds are separate and will never come together. 

 

Fragments of a Life 

Olga Stefan 

48'26 USA/RO/CH 2016 

Biographical fragments are pieced together in a desperate attempt to establish a coherent narrative of life, while acknowledging the incomplete image of reality they present.  


Q and A with the filmmaker Olga Stefan, the maker of Fragments of a Life   

 

Sunday 17.12.2023 

17:00 


Nanuli and Gogi 

Mariam Agladze 

14’10 GE/EE 2018 

Nanuli and Gogi have lived together for 50 years, they joke about whom death will take first. 

 

Embers 

Tamara Stepanyan 

77' AM/LB/QA 

A dialogue between generations. An evocation of an era that is absent now, yet some members of this time still exist. 

  

 

Sunday 17.12.2023 

20:00 

 

When Pigs Come 

Biljana Tutorov 

71'46 CS/HR/BA 2017 

Dragoslava keeps her private archive of memories of all major events in recent political history of five countries in which she has lived, without ever moving from her apartment. 

 



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