Older Adults Archives

Spring Chicken

Creativity & Connection, Everyday Loneliness, Older Adults, UnLonely Film Festival 6

Anny Junek, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, is the three-time champion of her Israeli retirement home’s annual Purim costume contest (a Smurf, a doctor, and a handyman).

Leftovers

Creativity & Connection, Honorable Mentions, Older Adults, UnLonely Film Festival 6

After taking over his family’s Chinatown restaurant, Steven and his pet fish must find a way to survive as a global pandemic sweeps New York City. 9:49 mins.

Wannabe

Award Winners, Best of Fest, Comedy, Creativity & Connection, Documentary, Older Adults, UnLonely Film Festival 6

A hilarious, heart warming docu-drama about a group of elderly women who form a Spice Girls tribute band to earn a quick buck when one friend can’t pay the bills. 11:12 minutes.

Fortaleza

Creativity & Connection, Older Adults, UnLonely Film Festival 6

An elderly nomad attempts to win the heart of a woman he sees in a diner.

Take Me To Prom

15-20 minutes, LGBTQ+, Older Adults, UnLonely Film Festival 6, Young Adults

Featuring the high school prom stories of queer people aged 17 to 88, ‘Take Me To Prom’ captures 70 years of LGBTQ social progress through this adolescent milestone.

This Time Away

15-20 minutes, Addiction & Recovery, Everyday Loneliness, Honorable Mentions, Older Adults, UnLonely Film Festival 6

Nigel is an elderly man living as a recluse, haunted by his past and memory of the family he once had… until an unexpected visitor arrives and disrupts his lonely routine.