Dementia Movies

A man addicted to visiting his memories wrestles with a promise he made his father when he was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

A ten year old boy, Arjun, has to find a way to navigate his world when his grandmother, who has dementia, unexpectedly has to stay with him and his...

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

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger...

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

On the night of one day, the passage had become a quiet river just like a mirror. This story is a tale in which the goldfish which grew old, and the...

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

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...

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

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

An old man with dementia tries to remember pieces of his life regarding his wife.

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...

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...

Short animation by Takahiro Shibata

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...

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

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

Rubens, an elderly writer, is diagnosed with dementia and begins to seek immortality through his poems. At the end of his life, doubts and...