Program contains 6 films including a pre-recorded Filmmaker Interview — Total Running Time:&nbsp;1 hr 23 min.To view more information on all the films in the Festival click&nbsp;<a href="https://legacyfilmfestivalonaging2023.eventive.org/films" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; background-color: transparent;">HERE.</a>

DOCUMENTARY SHORT.&nbsp;Three love stories between grandmothers and granddaughters relating in that short overlapping time in their lives when they are both grown women. A web series on cross-generational friendship, honesty, and mutual admiration, set against the process of ageing, and the inevitability of separation. Excerpted from the series "Raiding Grandma".

Three Grandmas – Episode 1 – Rinat & Bracha

Documentary series of three eight-minutes episodes, exploring that special kind of love between grandmothers and granddaughters.

Three Grandmas – Episode 2 – Masha & Irena

Three Grandmas – Episode 3 – Rachel-Hadas & Nelly

DOCUMENTARY SHORT. A grandson creates a loving portrait of his elderly grandparents, Tsipa and Volf Gamburg. Over a period of six years, San Francisco filmmaker Daniel Gamburg lets them tell their own story of love, loss and love again.

Tsipa and Volf

A grandson creates a loving portrait of his elderly grandparents, Tsipa and Volf Gamburg. Over a period of six years, San Francisco filmmaker Daniel Gamburg lets them tell their own story of love, loss and love again.

Daniel Gamburg, director of Tsipa and Volf, interviewed by LFFoA Executive Director and Founder, Sheila Malkind.

Interview with Dir. Daniel Gamburg — TSIPA AND VOLF

Daniel Gamburg, director of Tsipa and Volf, interviewed by LFFoA Executive Director and Founder, Sheila Malkind.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT. Being 97 is a short film about my grandfather, Herbert Fingarette, an American philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In a book he wrote 20 years ago titled “Death: Philosophical Soundings” he asked: If death is the end, then why be afraid? He now admits that the premise of his book is not so much “wrong” as it is asking the wrong question. Making the film was a unique collaboration between filmmaker and subject, grandson and grandfather. I operated the camera and ran the sound, the sole crew member. My grandfather participated in telling his story, suggesting actions and ideas that helped shape the film. Being 97 was also an opportunity for me to explore my own feelings around mortality. As I grow older, into middle age, the reality of aging and dying have become much more real. Watching my grandfather grapple with the question, and not find an answer, has given me a perspective that is both difficult and, in a sense, a relief. The answer, as he says in the film, is that there is no answer. It is simply an experience that everyone ultimately must go through.This film is about re-considering: What is death and what does it mean to the living? Why does the will to live persist, despite the inevitable? This is the story of a man facing death, searching for an answer while rejecting the fallacy he described in his own earlier attempts at rationalization. I feel that my grandfather is a beautiful symbol of a universal human experience, as well as an engaging character in his own right. I hope that you enjoy the film, which means a great deal to me and my grandfather. —— Andrew Hasse, Dir.

Being 97

Portrait of the filmmaker’s 97 year old grandfather, philosopher Herbert Fingarette, who at the end of his life questioned much of his thinking about meaning and mortality.

The Grands

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Explore our Festival Programs below, available to view at your leisure from January 6–22, 2023. This year we have 18 programs, organized into two categories: ALL LEGACY SHORTS: FRESH VIEWS ON LATER LIFE — 4 differently themed Shorts Programs; and FEATURE LENGTH FILMS + SHORTS — feature-length films, stand-alone or with one or more shorts. For more info and to order tickets, just click on the slide. If you’d like to view a list of individual films, click on “Back to Festival Site” at the top of this page, and then click on FILM GUIDE.

The Legacy Film Festival on Aging celebrates the aging process as profound, often challenging, & always courageous. Will we age “gracefully”, crankily, painfully, defiantly? We portray this unique, ever-changing experience honestly, artfully, always with compassion and love for their subjects.

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