Grandmother Movies

The poor shepherd boy Michal signs up for service at the royal castle as a gardener's apprentice. He soon learns his trade well, but he also learns...

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

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...