In the cross-media project De Toekomst is Grijs, MAX investigates the effects of a changing population composition. What will our country look like in 2040 if we do nothing now?
Three juxtaposing stories taking place in Portugal, Austria and Cuba create an intimate and poetic portrait of the daily lives and struggles of the elderly in an unstable world, seen through the eyes of their grandchildren.
A boy and his ageing grandfather are connected by the music his grandfather plays. When the grandfather suddenly can’t remember how to play and his very own light goes out, the boy must find a way to bring his grandfather and the light back.
A patient camera glides over the everyday objects: still lives on the wall, flowers in the vase, a swaying drop light. The sun enters the cosy home where Noëlla sits smoking at her laptop, playing Solitaire. The situation is hopeless. She’s going to lose against the computer once again. All the while her son-in-law, Pierre, is organising everything she needs, pragmatic and friendly: breakfast, the (last) doctor’s visit – and then the transfer.
Short journey by tram in a big city where an older woman and a hasty man are bound together by circumstances. He is not pleased with it. Or is he?
After being sentenced to community service, Sara begins working with Artur, a lonely septuagenarian in a wheelchair.
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