• The Best Years of Our Lives

    95 minutes | Camelot Theatres

A spotlight on the stories that celebrate and explore the later stages in life, we follow people as they build new relationships, rediscover who they are, look back on the lives they’ve lived and enjoy the ones they are living.

Short Films

Death Metal Grandma

A 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, Inge Ginsberg, rose to fame as a songwriter for legendary musicians such as Doris Day, Dean Martin and Nat King Cole. Follow her journey to break out as a performer in a different musical genre...

Eve

Eve exposes a 74 year old woman's journey through grief, sexual passion, and renewal.

Hula Girl

At 94 years of age, Joan Anderson wants to set the record straight on one of the biggest fads in modern American history.

I Have a Message for You

To escape Auschwitz, she left her father to die. Decades later, she got a message from him.

Merry-Go-Round

A group of older men go out for a drink. Or two. Or three...

Serving Joy

The table is set, the roast is cooked to perfection, and the soufflés are rising as high as Joy's blood pressure at the most important dinner party of her life. As the wine begins to flow and facades drop, buried secrets rise...

Wendy's Shabbat

Shabbat dinner gatherings for these Jewish senior citizens is at the Wendy's fast food restaurant where they say prayers and light candles over hamburgers and fries.

film details

Running Time: 95 minutes

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