30th EUFF - Honig im Kopf (Head Full of Honey)
6:15 PM on Saturday Dec. 5th, 2015
ByTowne Cinema, 325 Rideau St
6:15 PM on Saturday Dec. 5th, 2015
ByTowne Cinema, 325 Rideau St
Germany, 2014, 139 minutes
German, Italian, with English sub-titles
A story about a special love, the love between Tilda and her grandfather Amandus. Amandus has Alzheimer's. He always was the bon vivant, the humourous and beloved head of the family; now he starts acting like a child. Only the ten-year-old Tilda can deal with him and his disease — she looks at it with the eyes of a child and a kind of humour and sensitivity that makes it easier to approach Amandus when he is lost in his new own world. This special connection approaches the disease in a humourous but emotional way, without forgetting about its tragedy.
Amandus' condition is getting worse after his wife died. It seems to be a desperate situation, because Tilda's parents Sarah and Niko cannot take care of him. The only way they think they can help Amandus is to bring him to a nursing home. But little Tilda doesn't want to have her granddad in such a "home", so she kind of kidnaps him and helps him fulfill his last big dream... to see Venice once again. Venice is the place where Amandus and his wife first met and fell in love.
A very special adventure begins: a ten-year-old girl and a seventy-year-old Alzheimer's patient are on their way to Italy...
German, Italian, with English sub-titles
A story about a special love, the love between Tilda and her grandfather Amandus. Amandus has Alzheimer's. He always was the bon vivant, the humourous and beloved head of the family; now he starts acting like a child. Only the ten-year-old Tilda can deal with him and his disease — she looks at it with the eyes of a child and a kind of humour and sensitivity that makes it easier to approach Amandus when he is lost in his new own world. This special connection approaches the disease in a humourous but emotional way, without forgetting about its tragedy.
Amandus' condition is getting worse after his wife died. It seems to be a desperate situation, because Tilda's parents Sarah and Niko cannot take care of him. The only way they think they can help Amandus is to bring him to a nursing home. But little Tilda doesn't want to have her granddad in such a "home", so she kind of kidnaps him and helps him fulfill his last big dream... to see Venice once again. Venice is the place where Amandus and his wife first met and fell in love.
A very special adventure begins: a ten-year-old girl and a seventy-year-old Alzheimer's patient are on their way to Italy...