ERIK is a short film about memory, loss, and love. Erik, a 78-year-old man, is preparing to move out of his longtime home when he discovers that an important photograph of his wife is missing. As he searches through the empty rooms, it becomes clear that he is not only missing the photo but also losing his grip on reality. The film reflects on the profound and painful impact of Alzheimer’s, showing how it changes both those who live with it and their loved ones.
A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
The phenomenon that occurs in a room full of objects from the past allows Ulises to temporarily recover his memory.
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
A man must come to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. A father and son story, by a father and son, starring a father and son. Gideon faithfully visits his father in a memory care facility but cannot accept his father's memory loss and confusion. His frustration with his father and need to correct his father's memories creates distress, causing a rift in this otherwise loving father-son relationship.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Tells the family story of an 85-year-old mother taking care of her 65-year-old daughter with Alzheimer's disease, using a delicate female perspective to show the infinite power of love and family at the end of life.
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
An old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.
Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins to show signs of dementia, Shunsuke takes the family on a trip in a desperate attempt to pull them together before it is too late. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's short story of the same name received the awards for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Music at the 1st Asia International Film Festival in Taipei.
Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, where a solar eclipse induces town inhabitants (a lonely housewife, a frustrated schoolteacher, and a struggling filmmaker) to search for solace and understanding in themselves and one another.
When Chloe's grandmother gets diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she's forced to become a stay-at-home teenager overnight.
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With Christmas Eve just around the corner in bustling New York, five lonely and sad strangers find their lives inadvertently intersected.
Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan.
Books vanish from a library. A daughter says goodbye to her mother. A writer struggles with Alzheimer's disease.
Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and Barbara tries to help as much as possible although Martin is often angry and violent towards her.
Maria is a mother who, after the departure of her son, faces loneliness and the imminent loss of memory and her conception of time.
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.