Mein vergessenes Leben

Not Here to Be Loved

October 2005 •French

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...

Miracle in Kasama

March 2018 •Japanese

Yuka Shibuya, a struggling actress, and Hatsue, a widowed chestnut farmer, meet a mysterious, bloodied man in the farm. The three end up living together during chestnut season and form a special bond while a miracle slowly unfolds.

Die Anruferin

March 2008 •German

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Jules

August 2023 •English

A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.

Proof

September 2005 •English

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

Dancing at Lughnasa

September 1998 •English

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

Elicit

September 2023 •English

About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.

Joanne & Jacob

October 2015 •Dutch

A short, poetic documentary of an old woman and the loneliness that surrounds her after her husband was sent to a nursing home.

The Notebook

June 2004 •English

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

Nonino's Gift

January 2022 •English

When a young teenager learns of his grandfather's memory sickness, he forces his father to meet with him, despite having bad family history.

Happiness

September 2016 •

After his mother's death, Chan Kai-yuk feels so alone that he leaves Guangzhou for Hong Kong to look up the father who abandoned him and his mom. But Yuk's hopes are dashed on finding his dad has a new family and considers him a burden. Alone and homeless, Yuk is taken in by Auntie Fen, a middle-aged recluse who leads a solitary existence. At first, their different habits and personalities lead to numerous squabbles, intensified by Yuk's self-centeredness and Fen's odd temperament. As time goes on, Yuk learns Fen is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. The discovery unexpectedly serves as a catalyst for the young man's growth as a caring friend. For the first time in her life, Fen feels truly blessed. But it is a situation rife with irony due to the nature of her disease and the accelerating elusiveness of feelings and memories.

The Leisure Seeker

January 2018 •English

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.

A Hundred Flowers

September 2022 •Japanese

Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly.

Moneta

January 2024 •Hungarian

The short film Moneta is a 12-minute drama that tastes the forms of love across fates and the difficulties of living with dementia through one day of Katalin.

Elena

October 2016 •Macedonian

An old woman suffering from dementia thinks she is twenty years old and is about to run away with her lover. How does this illness affect her son?

I May Regret

July 2018 •English

An older woman suffering from dementia is convinced that her young live-in nurse out to kill her and take her life's fortune

Rechtlos und ausgeliefert? Schicksal Demenz

October 2013 •German

The Father

December 2020 •English

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

Mother Lear

May 2023 •English

An irascible Shakespeare scholar with early onset dementia communicates with her caretaker daughter using the only language available to her, the text of King Lear, as the two struggle with aging, love, and their own balance of power.

The Neighbor

July 2023 •German

The pensioner Mr. Kummer is desperate to attend a Christmas party of his estranged family, who have invited him by surprise. A story about the loss of illusion.