In this immersive meditation on elder consciousness and the act of caregiving a parent with dementia, filmmaker Rea Tajiri centers her mother’s storytelling wisdom as the dream fabric for this film. Rose’s renditions of popular songs of her era provide the soundtrack for time travel as we witness her evolution across nine decades of living.

A delicate weave between past and present, parenting and being parented, the reliability of memory and the desire to reinvent one's own life when you can't remember - are reflected upon in this tender and humorous film about aging, loss, mortality and transformation.

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER: Rea Tajiri

PRODUCER: Sian Evans

EDITOR: Catherine Hollander

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Reiko Tahara

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Dru Mungai, Christian Bruno, Sherri Kauk, Ann Kaneko

MUSIC: Shakuru Tajiri

LENGTH: 84 min

LANGUAGES: English

COUNTRY: United States

GENRE: Documentary

ACCOLADES / FESTIVALS

2022 Blackstar Film Festival | Audience Award, Jury Award, Honorable MentionBest Feature Documentary/ Honorable Mention, Best Feature Documentary

2022 San Diego Asian Film Festival | Grand Jury Prize
2022 Doc NYC | American Lives Section
2022 Philadelphia Asian Film Festival | Audience Choice, Documentary, Best Documentary Feature, Jury Award
2022 IDFA (International Documentary Film Fest Amsterdam) | International Competition
2023 Slamdance | Unstoppable, Competition

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