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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