One of the most common misconceptions regarding later age concerns sexuality, appearing in the form of hurtful stereotypes stigmatizing the elderly as ‘asexual’ or condemning them […]
Founded in 2002, Romania’s first international feature film festival, usually abbreviated as TIFF (not to confuse with its namesake from Toronto) has become one of the […]
As our society continues to age, the depiction of the “Third Age”—the period of life after retirement—takes on increasing significance. “Abschiede und Aufbrüche: Das Alter im […]
Wednesday morning, French singer Thomas Dutronc announced the disappearance of his mother, late music icon Françoise Hardy, at 80 years old. As the expected laudatory tributes […]
The Third Austrian Film Gender Report was released in April 2024 by Austrian Film Institute and involves the funding data from eleven Austrian funding bodies, including […]
Podcast recommendation – Wiser than me TM (2023-) In her seminal essay The Second Sex, first published in France in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir discusses the […]
Blurring the borders between the personal and the collective, Ana Dumitrescu’s 2017 documentary film, Licu, a Romanian Story, delivers an intimate portrait of a 92-year-old man, […]
In the study of ageing and gender in contemporary European cinema that the research project AGE-C is undertaking, one of the key lines of questioning is […]