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Filmmaker Reiner Riedler will be on site for a discussion afterwards.

In his early fifties, successful magazine photographer Michael Appelt moves back into his old childhood home to care for his mother, who is suffering from the onset of dementia.
Appelt, himself traumatized after a long stay in hospital and suffering from severe depression, lovingly cares for his mother and dreams of earlier adventures when his world, dominated by photography, was still in order.
Reiner Riedler's documentary is a personal portrait of a friend and companion that not only tells of the essential themes of being human, growing old and confronting the hopeless, but also makes Michael Appelt's impressive photographic oeuvre accessible.
But first and foremost, The Good Years is one thing: the cinematic testimony of an unconditional love that forms the basis for mother and son to live together in times of change.

Austria 2024, 94 min, German original version | FSK: 12
Director: Reiner Riedler | Screenplay: Katja Schröckenstein, Reiner Riedler