Movies: Alzheimer s disease

The adventure of five seniors who engage in an intense training of their mind. For the purpose of a scientific study, the impact of meditation on aging is evaluated....

"Village of the forgetful" (original title: "Das Dorf der Vergesslichen") tells the story of European Alzheimer's disease patients who are being taken care of by natives in a small village in Thailand. The movie illustrates the intercultural encounte...

After 50 years of marriage, Wayne, an octogenarian with Alzheimer's, seeks a forbidden love from his youth....

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A poignant, sometimes sad, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, often absurd story of a multiple journey: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggled with losing herself to Alzheimer’s disease, but finding solace in her repeated “re...

Lübeck pastor Franziska Kemper has to marry her ex-husband Christoph and his heavily pregnant girlfriend Andrea. Not an easy situation, as she has not yet got over the breakdown of her marriage. And she is also challenged as a pastor: Paul Jacobsen, ...

The event of the century is about to take place, a spectacular total solar eclipse. A girl is going to witness it with her grandmother and, despite her happiness, she will have to face her fear of the dark to enjoy the moment when it gets dark in the...

One morning, an elderly woman grappling with Alzheimer’s awakens, gazes into the mirror, and, confronted with a stranger’s reflection, embarks on a poignant quest to rediscover the face she has carried through a lifetime, now altered overnight....

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A documentary based on Daniel Gibbs' book A Tattoo on My Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease....

This short film tells the story of a former university professor diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. The protagonist wakes up at dawn and begins the morning routine he used to follow during his time as a professor. Later, his wife and son discove...

A short film that presents a small excerpt of the family life between a homosexual son and a mother diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The film presents Fernando's conflict in his search for acceptance and recognition from his mother, which is made difficul...

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In this short documentary film, the activation of grandma's memory is explored by revisiting old pictures of her loved ones....

Norm is a love story pure and simple. But there is nothing simple about it. A loving sister decides to take her older brother with Down syndrome into her home to provide the care and the sense of family she feels he has been denied since childhood. L...

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around....

Throughout the years, the role of a mother and grandmother is to take care of her own. However, when roles are forced to switch, one daughter and granddaughter must find the pieces of taking care of their recently strange loved one.....

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The life of a woman with dementia is turned upside down when she receives the latest postcard from her travelling girlfriend....

With the early onset of Alzheimer's at 52, John Mann, front man for Canadian Celtic rock band Spirit of the West, confronts the reality that he's losing grasp of the poetic and political lyrics he shared with millions....