Dementia, Dad and Me: Filmmaker captures changing relationship with her father
CBC News | Posted: November 18, 2022 4:00 PM | Last Updated: November 20, 2022
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Rainer Minzloff held onto things — photos, objects, stories.
They reveal a story of immigration, family, work, challenge, celebration.
His daughter, filmmaker Hannah Minzloff, captured his final chapter as he lived with Lewy body dementia.
Memories and mementos, old and new, are woven into the documentary Dementia, Dad and Me.
The onset of his dementia brought a dramatic change to the relationship Hannah has with her father. Dementia, Dad and Me follows the two of them as they find new ways to connect, and to navigate the delicate transition of their roles from father and daughter to caregiver and cared for. Director: Hannah Minzloff