Grandmother Movies

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...

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...

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

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

Forced by her poor father to live with a well-off man, a young girl must find a way to escape her new abusive home.

Sometimes, couple who have children miss Grandma... but only sometimes.

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...

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...

Heckel and Jeckle decide it is too much trouble and time-consuming, not to mention wear-and-tear on their wings, to fly south for the winter, so they...

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

A short documentary on a grandson returning home to visit his aging grandmother who was crying to see him on the phone.

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...

A young girl and her visiting Abuela are forced to connect, despite the language barrier that separates them.

A love letter to grannies. Aina is an 88-year old retiree. Yes, health issues lay at the core of her life, but her view on life, however, is full of...

Rebekah, a young girl occupied by her personal life and job, disregards a failing relationship with her grandmother, who she'll eventually have to...

A grandson shows his grandmother how to navigate an iPad 2 full of clues for solving a puzzle. Over a phone call, she recites an email she wrote...

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

To process grief, a young adult revisits fragments of their late grandmother’s life to restore the version of their own inner child when she...