Dementia Movies

Into a starry sky full of coloured spots! The propellers have been revved up. Accompanied by the drone and roar of the engine, the aircraft takes...

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...

A woman struggles with Lewy-Body dementia.

The elderly Stoyan has advanced dementia and his daughter Iliana decides to organize a trip for him, in which Stoyan can see his sister and other...

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

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

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

Leaving music school, the happy-go-lucky Ling returns to Hong Kong to her dementia-stricken father, on whom she tries to conduct music therapy. Her...

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...

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

Faced with the task of taking care of his senile dad, Adrian Lane attempts to seek out a humane way of ending his father's life. His earnest...

Former football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to publicize recent findings about the often dire consequences of head concussions...

An irascible Shakespeare scholar with early onset dementia communicates with her caretaker daughter using the only language available to her, the...

In an effort to reconnect with her grandfather, a young woman travels to northeast Poland to trace his ancestry.

In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth...

When an elderly man and his caretaker plant a sapling, a ghost of long-forgotten grief stirs. As the silence deepens between them, what’s left...

A teacher, haunted by the death of her husband, returns to her childhood home to care for her ill mother. But as her mother's dementia deepens, dark...

A captivating short film about dementia and the struggles of being a young carer.

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...