Films 2018-19

Films in alphabetical order






A Gift for a Centenarian (00:22:45, 2017, HU) Yamil Rodriguez (NI)

The train ride becomes an inner journey as the filmmaker recollects the memories of his grandmother who turns 100, the film becomes a gift.


A Roof in Common (00:16:54, 2018, PT/ TW) Fan Wu (TW)

Inacio and Francisca have shared the same roof, since they both lost their life partners. Now, during the final season of their life, they face a new challenge, sharing life - and affections, with one another.


Adgilis deda (00:21:10, 1976, USSR) Goderdzi Tschocheli (GE)

The sound of cattle calling awakens an old, lonely woman from her bitter thoughts and makes her realize - she has no right to die. As long as she is alive, the village will be a village; only with her death will the last sign of life disappear.


Alte Sachen (00:03:15, 2018, IL) Tom Prezman (IL)

The film tells the story of the grandmother’s trauma from the holocaust. It is in stop-motion, the filmmaker recreated his grandmother and her living room.


Cafe Nagler (00:58:39, 2015, IL/ DE) Mor Kaplansky (IL)

During the 1920’s, Café Nagler was the hottest place in Berlin. The director embarks on a journey to find out what is left of the legendary café previously owned by her family.


Cobwebs (00:01:47, 2012, NL) Wiep Teeuwisse (NL)

Animation with the grandmother’s voice-over. The director’s Grandma remembers what happened when she was young, then she forgets and then she remembers again. Graphical lines follow the mood of the story.


Grandma Has a Video Camera (00:56:09, 2007, USA) Tania Cypriano (BR/ USA)

This documentary is about the use of home video by a family of Brazilian immigrants, which portrays their lives in the United States for over twenty years.


Grandmother's Rice (00:16:00, 2010, PL) Lun Lee (KR)

Grandma’s Rice follows an 83-year-old woman in South Korea who is left adrift within her own family. Without a place to call her own, Sun-Ok You wanders between different residences.


Granny Project (01:30:00, 2017, HU/ GB) Balint Revesz (HU)

Three grandsons embark with their grannies on an anarchistic journey into the past – a complex road movie about intergenerational dialogue in Great Britain, Hungary, and Germany.


Heiratsanträge an meine Oma (00:22:19,2017, DE) Nossa Schäfer (DE)The director’s grandma talks self-confidently about her many male suitors and her pursuit of independence. She finds herself caught in a contradiction when face to face with her granddaughter’s perspective.


Hello Sea! (00:24:00, 2016, HU) María Grazia Goya (CU)

Driven by the Ecuadorian director’s own relation to the sea, the film explores what the sea means to people in a landlocked country.


Ik was pas 14 (00:12:19, 2016, NL) Froukje van Wengerden (NL)

In 1944, the grandmother of the director, then a fourteen-year-old girl, saw how her father, along with 658 other men, was deported by train from their village in the Netherlands. He never came back.


Kiki der Kriegshund (00:23:34, 2013, NO/ DE) Clemens Wilhelm (DE)

Kiki was a black-and-white fox-terrier who lived during World War 2. A born Parisian, Kiki is adopted by the German Army and travels through Europe all the way to Russia in the winter of 1942.


Learning to Milk a Cow (01:04:30, 2016, CA/ DE) Juli Saragosa (CA)

Hand-processed black & white film, color film, photographs and official documents create a montage of three generations of reflections on politics, longing, feelings of displacement and loss.


Leda mit dem Schwan (00:00:42, 2006, DE) Lilli Kuschel (DE) & Lola Göller (DE)

This film is a re-enactment of the eponymous renaissance painting by Antonio da Corregio, originally from 1532, but now the scenery has been relocated to a beer garden in Berlin, Kreuzberg.


Lola (00:02:14, 2016, PHL), Roberth Fuentes (PHL)

Every day the director/ grandchild hears his grandma singing. Even though she can't see the brightness of her life she has never lost hope for herself.


Manou, La Seyne sur Mer (00:09:33, 2011, DE) Maya Schweizer (FR)

To the question; "Do you have friends in the retirement home? " Maya Schweizer´s grandmother answers in a sometimes very lucid and then sometimes very dreamy monolog about how she feels in her new home.


Marusia (00:30:00, 2016, UA) Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun (UA)

A 15-year-old girl is urged to marry in order to escape her family's persecution by a new regime. The story also reflects the challenges of the last one-hundred years in one of the most beautiful regions in the world.


Modern Family vol. 1 (00:03:19, 2016 NL/ GR) Anna-Maria Pinaka (GR)

The filmmaker has been videoing her grandmother whenever she visited her in Greece, she juxtaposed that footage with recordings of similarly uneventful, yet more consciously performance-like recordings of herself.


Mountain of the Strong, Proud Women (00:45:00, 2014, SE) Hanna Wildow (SE)

Live Video Performance

In a collage made up of interviews with Wildow’s grandmother, Inga Svensson, the archive she constructed around the mountain Omberg, a sound piece by Imri Sandström, and a video of the mountain, a work in four voices unfolds.


O moarte în familia mea (00:13:26, 2017, RO) Andra Tarara (RO)

The filmmaker always thought the world would stop spinning when a loved one dies. But it did not. Grandma is terminally ill, while the rest of the family frets with Easter preparations.


Olivia (00:11:10, 2016, PT) Anna Magdalena Silva (CO) and Atsushi Kuwayama (JP)

Olivia spends her days in the house that used to be a busy restaurant, and her life is constantly filled with sparkling stories of the past.


Sara (00:02:17, 2017, IA) Ronit Hammer (IA)

Animation of an aging woman who comes to terms with herself as she gets ready for her 70th birthday.


The Grandmother (00:34:001970, USA) David Lynch (USA)

An imaginative lad of about ten finds a bag of seeds, which he plants in soil that he's placed in the middle of a single bed. The seed sprouts and grows into a grandmother, who's loving and approving.


The Singer Who Fell (00:24:00, 2016, RU/ FR) Lana Parshina (RU)

Meet grandma Olga, a 105-year-old student of Konstantin Stanislavski, who still teaches vocals in her Moscow apartment.





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