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John Peterson lives with his partner, Eric, and their daughter Mónica in California. When John’s father Willis pays a visit, tension builds between Willis and the rest of the family.

Drama | 113 min

Falling

These friends are in their 90s, and they still swim in the local river every day. After all this time, they’ve realized that magic exists in the simple moments of everyday life.

Documentary | 11 min

The Noodle Group

A young girl is left to herself while her grandfather takes a long sleep. She resolves to offer him eternal comfort in her last moment with him.

Drama | 9 min

Body of Light

Some pre-posthumous lifestyle advice from a couple of brassy bits of aging crumpet who have very definitely been there, and no doubt, done that.

Comedy | 1 season

Broad Appeal: Living with E's

A cautionary tale examining systemic abuse of elderly people in Las Vegas revealing the consequences of unchecked power.

Documentary | 104 min

The Guardians

An elderly Chinese can collector strikes up an unexpected friendship with a house full of friends in East Vancouver.

Documentary | 17 min

A-Yi

A-Yi (Cantonese Subtitles)

Don’t ever tell a 75-year-old to go quietly into the night. Hey Lady! is a CBC Gem original comedy series about a wiry old gal with a whiskey voice and a bourbon appetite, who refuses to let herself be put out to pasture. In an age when age is often the problem, Lady is a testament to the life force. Episode after episode, Lady finds herself at the centre of some absurd and very public embarrassments, requiring the assistance - and sometimes the bail bond - of one of her tired and overworked middle-aged children.

Hey Lady!

Featuring intimate, charming interviews with queer Canadians ranging in age seventeen to eighty-eight, Take Me To Prom invites audiences to revisit this iconic adolescent milestone. Meet Alf, a quiet wallflower with a secret crush. Fontaine only remembers the details of his date’s dress. Marcy skipped her prom for a wild escapade. Alphonso staged a liberating protest with his friends. Marc bravely went to court so he could take his boyfriend to prom. Carmen’s traumatic prom marked the beginning of her inspiring transformation. And Caroline’s story captures the complex reality faced by queer youth today. Vivid set design, re-enactments and archival footage transport audiences across seventy years of teenage heartbreak and rebellion - all while telling a story of social change over seven decades.

Documentary | 21 min

Take Me to Prom

“I got used to this park because everything is in French. There’s no English-speaking people here.” Florida is a winter wonderland for these Québécois snowbirds. They leave the Canadian cold behind for a totally French trailer park where no one speaks English - and everyone has a good time. Long-time snowbirds Rollande, Yvette, Julien, Monique, Agathe, and Nelson are all getting older, but still make the trip to Florida every year. They’re here to spent their winter days having fun in the sun.

Documentary | 28 min

Snowbirds

An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.

Drama | 91 min

Still Mine

Midfield Mobile Home Park is in a prime Calgary location, a 17-acre inner-city site located at the one of the busiest sections of the city - where the TransCanada Highway meets the city’s main freeway. For more than four decades, residents saw the city grow up around them, yet the community remained mostly unchanged. Neighbours helped neighbours, gardens were planted, children were raised. Midfield was a small town within a big city. In 2014, residents received an eviction notice: the park was to be be closed on September 30th, 2017. The date was set for the final battle in a war that had been raging for twenty years. The City of Calgary cites crumbling infrastructure for the closure. Sewer pipes were placed under the homes in 1968; time and a lack of maintenance have taken their toll. The City has stated it would be too costly to conduct the repairs. Residents of Midfield aren’t buying it. With homes in the surrounding communities selling for millions of dollars and an aggressive redevelopment plan for the area already approved by City Council, the residents of Midfield Mobile Home Park believe they are sitting on land so valuable, it must come at the cost of their home and their community. Rudy Prediger, an 83 year-old former long-haul trucker, is not a man who is afraid of a fight. More than half of Midfield’s residents are like Rudy: elderly, poor, with no other place to go. The $10,000 dollar “transitional allowance” the city is offering doesn’t come close to even a down payment in Calgary’s frantic real estate market, and most of the mobile homes are too old to move. A previous plan to build a park on the eastern boundary of the city has disappeared, and no other mobile home parks are taking new units. Rudy digs in for a fight, using local media and community support to launch a last-ditch effort to save a home he has lived in for 47 years. As the eviction date nears, Rudy risks everything to protect what he holds most dear.

Documentary | 25 min

Eviction Notice

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