AT NIGHT, I DREAM

Entirely shot in the elevator of an assisted living facility, AT NIGHT, I DREAM, highlights the tender encounters with our fellow human beings. A tale about age, love, loss, mourning, and the power of human connection.

The film touches upon the daily life of the residents, their relationship with the care staff, their relationship to life and finally our own relationship to age and the elderly, who are so often excluded and sidelined from our lives. The elevator operates as a bubble of intimacy, a magical, poetic and surprising zone of compassion.

“This film, which I wanted to be very simple, is knitted together by beautiful people, looks, silences, confidences, anecdotes, gestures of tenderness, bursts of laughter, deep despair, offerings, nostalgia, and furious joie de vivre. It is as multifaceted as life itself.” - Frédérique Buck.

In French with English subtitles.

Director Bio

Frédérique Buck is a trained journalist and works as a content designer and filmmaker, both fiction and documentary. Her work evolves around political and social themes.