Films 10 Films Keywords "Elderly people" x films with a digital version 3 short films 5 films available on demand 2 Region Australia 1 British-Irish Isles 1 Central America 1 Central Europe 1 South America 1 South Asia 1 South-East Europe 1 Western Europe 3 Country Australia 1 Czech Republic 1 Germany 1 Guyana 1 Mexico 1 Nepal 1 Netherlands 1 Romania 1 The Netherlands 1 United Kingdom 1 Keywords Art / Artists / Artisans 1 Collective / Community identity 1 Death 2 Elderly people 10 x Family / Kinship 2 Film / Photography / Mass media 1 Gender Role and Identity 1 Health / Health care / Healing 2 Indigenous Filmmaking 1 Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples 2 Inter-religious relations 1 Intergenerational relations 3 Life Story / Life History 1 Linguistics / Language 1 Love 1 Material Culture 1 Memory 2 Migration 1 Personal Narrative 1 Post-communism 1 Prison 1 Religion / Belief / Faith 1 Ritual 1 Social participation 1 Directors Calugareanu, Ilinca 1 Garland, Christy 1 Heer, Madelief de 1 MacDougall, David 1 Meyknecht, Steef 1 Papenbrook, Jana 1 Read, Rosie 1 Schlenker, Juana 1 Sojob, María 1 Yezbick, Julia 1 Series Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 4 not set 6 Country of production Australia 1 Canada 1 Denmark 1 Germany 1 Mexico 1 Netherlands 2 United Kingdom 5 Year of production 1977 1 2000 1 2004 2 2005 1 2008 1 2010 1 2012 1 2017 1 2019 1 Film list The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song 2012 71' Directed by Christy Garland . 'The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song', using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana, where both Muscle, and his mother Mary, each struggle to fight the family South America Elderly people Family / Kinship Intergenerational relations Domov 2000 28' Directed by Rosie Read . This film looks at the meaning of 'home' in the Czech Republic through the eyes of two women - one an old woman trying to assert her right to return home from an old person's residence, and the Central Europe Prison Elderly people Endgames 2008 32' Directed by Ilinca Calugareanu . The film follows a day in the life of Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania, focusing on the way the lives of the three main characters - Valer, an 85 year old retired colonel, Daria, an 89 year old South-East Europe Post-communism Elderly people Memory Good-bye Old Man 1977 70' Directed by David MacDougall . A last request of a Tiwi man on Melville Island was that a film be made of the pukumani (bereavment) ceremony to follow his death. The film follows his family, from the days of preparation to their Australia Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Death Elderly people Film / Photography / Mass media Ritual A Hospice in Amsterdam 2005 62' Directed by Steef Meyknecht . At the end of Van Goghstraat in Amsterdam is the Veerhuis. A normal residential house in a normal urban area, where children play outside in front of the door. But people come to the Veerhuis to die. Western Europe Health / Health care / Healing Elderly people In a State of Dress 2010 21' Directed by Madelief de Heer . Filmed in Walcheren, a region in the south-west of the Netherlands, this film tells of the lived experience of wearing regional dress. Once worn by the whole community, today this complex attire is Western Europe Material Culture Elderly people Intergenerational relations Pepe 2004 23' Directed by Juana Schlenker . Pepe is a Spanish immigrant who came to England more than forty years ago to work as a waiter. After working in several restaurants and hotels, he retired two years ago and now he fills his days with British-Irish Isles Migration Elderly people A Small Light 2004 32' Directed by Julia Yezbick . Through following the daily life of a home for the elderly in Kathmandhu, Nepal, run by Catholic nuns but situated beside the cremation ghats of Pashupathinath Hindu temple, this film explores South Asia Death Inter-religious relations Religion / Belief / Faith Elderly people TOTE_Grandfather 2019 80' Main Competition Directed by María Sojob . This film portrays an unexpected encounter between an old Tzotzil man, who is going blind, and his granddaughter, who does not remember her childhood well. The granddaughter, having grown up in the Central America Indigenous Filmmaking Gender Role and Identity Family / Kinship Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Elderly people Love Intergenerational relations Linguistics / Language Memory Why is Mr W. Laughing? 2017 76' Directed by Jana Papenbrook . Jana Papenbroock with Horst Wässle, Michael Gerdsmann, Bernhard Krebs WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than Western Europe Art / Artists / Artisans Collective / Community identity Elderly people Health / Health care / Healing Life Story / Life History Personal Narrative Social participation