[Film as a tool for the empowerment and independence of older adults]

The arts have educational value, and fictional cinema plays a role here in offering a useful critical analysis that deconstructs prevailing health realities. In doing so, it potentially allows us to escape these realities and envision alternative paths and ways of life. This text explores this approach by focusing on the institutionalization of the elderly, which is driven by a culture of risk and a culture of insurance. It highlights a dynamic of negotiation between children and elderly parents that favors the former and significantly disadvantages the latter. Several well-known films are used to support this analysis and a quest for emancipation.