Films 2022-23

Films in alphabetical order



Dreams (23’45” GE 2006) Dimitry Miasnikov

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


Embers (77’ AM/LB/QA) Tamara Stepanyan

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


Faith, Hope, Love (97’ DE 2017) Katja Fedulova

Katja Fedulova left Russia when she was 18, she returns home with one big question: are there still heroines in Putin’s Russia?


Fragments of a Life (48’26” USA/RO/CH 2016) Olga Stefan

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.


Granny and Fly (2’48” NL 2005) Bas de Leijer

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


Granny as an Apple (8’30” GE 2018) Ani Arveladze
A granddaughter tells the story of her grandmother, but the grandmother does not play by the rules of her filmmaker granddaughter.


Holidays (15’ GE 2019) Shorena Tevzadze

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


House of Dolls (68’ RO 2020)Tudor Platon

Exploration of a special universe: an annual vacation of a bunch of 70-year-old ladies.


How My Grandmother Became a Chair (9’55’’ DE/LB 2020) Nicolas Fattouh

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


I Could Be Her She Could Be Me (2’30” FR/DE 2012) Delphine Kermorvant

What's hidden behind a woman's smile.


Julia (13’30” 2020 DE/HR/AL 2018) Diane Barbé

Julia lives in and travels with her converted van.


Looming (6’ GE 2019) Irina Rurua

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


Maman, Maman, Maman (37’ DE 2019) Lucia Margarita Bauer

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


Marie and Hubert (18’ DE/CH 2000) Sonya Schoenberger

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


My Grandmother Beijing (9’8” NO 2008) Mats Grorud

The modernization of Beijing is told through the eyes of a young boy, playing with his old wrinkly grandmother.


Nanuli and Gogi (14’10” GE/EE 2018) Mariam Agladze

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


Perennial (14’30” CA 2021) Xinyue Liu
In this film, grandma's voice comes alive through the movements of a dancer.


Sisters (15’52” LV 2018) Darja Vetrova

Inseparable twins, Astrīda and Rasma have spent their whole lives together, and mostly identify themselves with the word “sister.”


The Esperance of Will (8’ LV 2017) Rene Turtledove 

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


The School Notebook (5’35” CH 2020) Morgane Frund

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


We’re Pregnant (22’ RO 2018) Razvan Mihai Badea

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


What Chairs Remember (10’55”, GE 2020) Inna Kulishova
A fragmented story of one person in one family in one apartment over the years.


When Pigs Come (71’46” CS/HR/BA 2017) Biljana Tutorov
Dragoslava keeps her private archive of memories of all major events in the recent political history of the five countries in which she has lived, without ever moving from her apartment.

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