Grandmother Movies

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

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

Grandma has become a little doddery. And since the death of her husband, called E.O., ever bigger gaps have opened in her memory, and her...

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.

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

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...

An old woman returns to her childhood home to recollect memories.

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

When he's ready to take the next step with his shiksa girlfriend, a young Jewish man gets possessed by the spirit of his dead Yiddish grandmother,...

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

A young woman struggles to tell her beloved grandmother a truth that she believes may ruin their relationship.

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...

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...