SYNCHRONOUS is an intimate portrait of love and the reverse side of love: mourning. The granddaughter/maker looks idealistically at the endless love between her grandfather and grandmother. When her grandfather dies, she decides to look for answers by filming her grandmother. What happens when you've been together all your life and your great love dies? Where is the love then?
My grandmother has dementia! And I live with my grandmother. Conflicts between the younger brother and the grandmother begin due to the grandmother's repeated behavior. Among the disappearing memories, what kind of memories should we live with?
The Salerno family is celebrating. It's Grandma Adela's birthday. However, in a conversation between women, Adela reveals a familiar truth that had never come to light.
Ariane's grandmother often visits her in her dreams. Together, they wander through unknown nocturnal landscapes. In this dreamlike short film, where the border between memories and imagination is blurry, Ariane raises the possibility that the seal between life and death is more porous than we think.
A fresh-out-of-college couple move into their first apartment together where they are greeted by their elderly landlord. Her unusual behavior causes the boyfriend to forego his responsibilities in favor of stalking her, eventually uncovering a secret cult hidden right beneath his feet.
Little María has been left in the care of her grandmother Matilde. The relationship between them is not very good. While María spends her time creating, her grandmother, who has become ill, has the urge to teach her the little trades that can help her fend for herself when she is gone. Their relationship becomes more tense, until her grandmother remembers a secret that she has kept since childhood...
An old woman returns to her childhood home to recollect memories.
A short 1971 study of the filmmaker's grandmother. A look into the private world and special memories of an 86-year-old Greek immigrant. Set in a tiny New England mill town near the seacoast.
Daniel, a teenager of fifteen, will have to face an unexpected situation while taking care of his little sister Laia, the same day that their mother may be fired.
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 few decades ago in the village houses next to the icons you could still see the popular prints on religious themes. They finally disappeared from use only in the 60-ies of the last century. Of course, their creators were not professional painters or connoisseurs of theology. Drew, as best they could, she felt, not knowing neither rules nor laws. Simple uneducated people, nuggets, sought to glorify God with their creativity, that resonates in the hearts of those of peasants or artisans as they are.
If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an exploration of my maternal family history from the perspective of Molly and the woman she was before she became my lovely grandma.
Maxwell's grandma teaches him how she makes a quilt.
Sudana puzzled when his wife said tonight there will be special guests come to their house. All they can do is prepare, memories occur and make a strange but wonderful day in his life.
Which efforts do we value in society and is it only in the world of sports that you have use of a good swing? Maybe it’s grandma “the rugbeater” that is the best athlete of all time.
This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.
Ana and her father Luís return to grandma’s house. Memories, pain and longing are experienced and questioned by the girl based on her perception of life and death.
10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese society. In domestic life, many women are now ignore the advice of their mothers and grandmothers, turning instead to counselling hotlines and, increasingly, divorce.