Aging Movies

Encore uses the power of personal stories and other communications techniques to challenge conventional thinking about aging and create a new...

Nena is a young woman obsessed with her appearance and with the idea of growing old. Influenced by a culture that turns female aging into something...

A documentary following three older drag entertainers at Aunt Charlie's Lounge in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. The film explores the rituals...

Triggered by a familiar face, an elderly man with Alzheimer’s journeys through the vivid, golden memories of his teenage love — the one...

85 years old and never married, Shizu has spent the past 3 decades living in one "Danchi" - the Japanese word for public housing - and filling it...

BELOW SURFACE reveals the extraordinary power of community through an unlikely subject: a YMCA Aquafit class. The documentary gathers numerous moving...

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

A documentary revealing society's perceptions of old age.

Based freely on the play of the same title by Tennesee Willams. Some fragments of the original play are restaged frame by frame by new botanical...

Mabel Wallace is a woman from Shinrone, Ireland. She has just turned 100. This is her story.

Four friends in their late years share memories about their families, their lives, their loves and life in general. Through their conversation we...

Sappho's Fire offers reflections about the journey that all of us must travel and the ways in which to reclaim one's later life. By following the...

Kuluma is a detailed and warmhearted short film about Saimi, an older lady who starts to tell her life story from the beginning – as well as...

Queer photographer Jill Posener’s fearless compulsion to document provides us with intimate views of radical feminist London, Bay Area 90s...