Know-ing : from the Otherside My Parents, Your Parents and Our Parents
<Synopsis> Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age, such as loneliness and growing blindness, which he thinks he can disguise. When Ernesto became a widower, he learned that aging is about filling the silences with a spinning record, with the calls from his son who lives far away, with the bank errands to withdraw his pension, wit...
<Synopsis > It’s never too late to fulfill one’s dreams: at 70, my father, former obstetrician-gynecologist and documentary film hero, has decided to become an actor. The film follows his new life, from his hospital retirement party to his first casting. I, as a filmmaker, see my creature getting away and gaining more freedom. <Directors : Pauline Horovitz >
< Synopsis > young man continued the journey of “oreore swindle” alone away from the crowd. An old woman answered his phone in Kumamoto Amakusa, far from the city. The strange life of an old woman and a young man has begun. Then, he experienced the calmness that has fallen out of his life before. He happened to work with a youth group planning an “old 8mm screening” at an o...
< Synopsis > They are single, widowed or divorced ; they have had children, husbands, work ; they have a life behind them, but also one to come… “Ladies“ reveals the intimate lives of five women in their sixties who are waging a discreet daily battle against solitude. It’s true that men often prefer younger women, it’s true that one feels invisible in a youth-oriente...