Encore uses the power of personal stories and other communications techniques to challenge conventional thinking about aging and create a new narrative for later life, characterized by individual renewal and social impact.

Fernando is an actor and theater teacher who, at the age of 74, is impelled to be the protagonist of...

For over 80 years, Merle Hayden has crusaded to recruit members to the utopian movement Lawsonomy. F...

François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the dail...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...

In a decaying Soviet-era retirement home, a vibrant group of elders cling to life by staging Shakesp...

Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room....

Hardly could anybody tell that 87 years old Lou has had Alzheimer’s disease. Over the years, Lou has...

85 years old and never married, Shizu has spent the past 3 decades living in one "Danchi" - the Japa...
"Work While You Have the Light" is a feature documentary by a multi-generational directing team that...

At Baycrest, an old-age home in Toronto, we follow a social worker as she talks to residents, partic...

What happens after death? Lila Ribi's 100-year-old grandmother Greti always has the same answer: The...

A new documentary that follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate a spr...

A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with his inner elf. Hulda...

The director's grandfather is a blind fortune teller and his father a real-estate owner. They have g...

For 91-year-old Ruta acting is not just a career: it is her lifestyle. Once again, she starts worki...
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA) is a California statewide, not-for-profit legal service...
Gracenter is a recovery residence that offers a supportive and gently challenging program for women ...
Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards...
Swords to Plowshares, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2007 Community Leadership Awards (the J...