FILM FESTIVAL FOR GENERATIONS: 24 TO 26 SEPTEMBER 2018

Organised in collaboration with the Heidelberg Centre South Asia, the festival brings together a selection of films relating to ageing issues such as housing, activity and creativity in old age, dementia and care giving. Film screenings will be followed by a discussion with experts from relevant fields

 

Inauguration of the Festival

 

Followed by screening of a film

Forget me Not (Vergiss Mein Nicht; Germany)

(90 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: David Sieveking

 

Recipient of the Critics Week Award, Locarno International Film Festival 2012

 

In Forget me Not, David Sieveking portrays the domestic care of his mother, who, like millions of others, is suffering from Alzheimer’s

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Dr. Andreas Kruse and Dr. Mohan Agashe