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Retirement Home (2017)

Retirement Home (2017)

Documentary

The passions and pains of a group of elders, sharing the same building, every weekday.

Release Date: 2017, December 28
Directors: Fernando Lino
Countries: Portugal
Production: Bruma Filmes

Overview:

A group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, where they talk, do arts and crafts, practice yoga and pray. We follow them between October 2012 and March 2013, when an economic crisis overshadowed Portuguese society and unemployment rates reached record levels. Meanwhile, arrangements are made for the Carnival ball. Will they bring the first place home this time?

Keywords:

senior citizen social documentary portugal documentary filmmaking retirement home elder care seniors portuguese cinema elder senior center