The FIFTH Annual LFFOA (Legacy Film Festival on Aging), SEPT. 18 – 20, 2015, New People Cinema,1746 Post Street, Japantown, San Francisco
2015 Legacy Film Festival on Aging includes many little-seen, independent short films, documentaries and feature-length narrative stories made in the USA, as well as Australia, Iceland, Ireland, and Israel. We're also showing a few classics that you might've seen, but are still fresh and important.
The 2015 themes are about Love, Sex, Generations, Memory, Friendships, End of Life Choices.
Israel is represented by two films:
Hibernation (15 min.)
Tomer Werechson, Dir., ISRAEL, 2014
An Israeli short by a grandson who lovingly films his grandfather’s secluded life. The grandfather had brain injuries during the war: so is it Alzheimer’s, or … something else?
The Farewell Party (93 min.)
Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit, DirS., Israel, 2014.
A unique, compassionate and unlikely funny story of a group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home who decide to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of their assistance begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with a life and death dilemma. In Hebrew, with English subtitles.
Link to the Festival website: http://www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org/
Link to the Festival program: http://www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org/pdf/LFFoA_booklet_2015_web.pdf