Grandmother Movies

A juvenile delinquent is sent to live with her grandmother after being paroled from the Girls' Penitentiary, only to find that the frail old woman cou...

Rafaela, an 80-year-old woman, has a long conversation with her grandson, going over his path from childhood to old age. Now that she has been diagnos...

A brother and sister embark on a journey to retrieve an inheritance from their grandmother in the wake of economic collapse and impending apocalypse.

Maxwell's grandma teaches him how she makes a quilt.

In this raw and graceful testimony of intersectional womanhood, a trans girl has to care for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disap...

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.

Growing up, I heard many tales of my grandmother's life, before she was known as Mimo, and each narrative she told stuck with me and still impact my t...

Two childhood friends who have since become fierce rivals are forced to make nice when their children marry. But the feud reignites when a bundle of j...

An 86 year old lady escapes from nursing home, picks up two musicians in the process and they all drive off south to a new life in a Mercedes converti...

SYNCHRONOUS is an intimate portrait of love and the reverse side of love: mourning. The granddaughter/maker looks idealistically at the endless love b...

A Native American grandmother who lives very simply alone in the desert actually inhabits a world that her half-Hispanic grandson and a white aging ma...

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

Ariane's grandmother often visits her in her dreams. Together, they wander through unknown nocturnal landscapes. In this dreamlike short film, where t...

This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for h...

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 d...

Edgar is a lonely crow who just wants to make a friend. Unfortunately for his target, Elena, he goes about it in the worst way possible.

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

Saw and imagined in the children's fantasy the story of grandmother of Christ and the Apostles a little girl. Today few people remember that just a fe...