Dementia Movies

Case study documenting a patient’s treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. Made for health professionals, Mental Hospital shows daily life at the...

Two strangers quietly struggle to navigate their changing identities as the summer draws to a close.

An elderly nursing home resident faces down nightfall, neglectful nurses, and the things that come for him in the night... armed with only a straw...

What’s it like to age with early-phase vascular dementia? And how about your loved ones? Successful author Heleen van Royen has taken on caring...

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

Leif is male dog, but his senile owner thinks he is a girl.

Yau-yau has a doting grandfather who is charged with school pick-ups, a routine that often comes complete with toys and treats. But Grandpa has...

The friendship between an elderly peddler and a middled aged fruit merchant.

The Recorder, the keeper of Epameinondas's mind, documents his moments on on little notes. Encouraged by his best friend Yiannis, Epameinondas sets...

Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s...

A small-time con artist rips off elderly dementia patients by pretending to be their daughter—before the con catches up with her.

A new-to-town carer forms an unlikely bond with her first patient, an elderly man with onset dementia, and together they find ways to reconcile with...

Jason van Genderen makes home videos about his ageing mother ‘Oma’, and accidentally turns her into an internet sensation.

Australian artist Leon Pericles faces his greatest challenge: holding an exhibition of his life's works while facing the mental decline of his wife...

An experimental psychological horror short film about living with dementia.

The director's mother is 90 years old—and is beginning to forget herself. Not only herself, but everything else as well. She has dementia. Only...

Seventy-year-old Daisy Graham is having a hard day. No one in her small town wants to let her forget about the big ceremony tomorrow, a ceremony at...

For over a decade, Stephanie has sacrificed her golden years to care for her husband with dementia.

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

Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, losing her love her spirit, her present her past.