What is a life for, once the work is done? Almost There follows men in the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan as they feel their way through retirement — some chasing new happiness, some seeking rest, all reckoning with time, dignity and the quiet transience of life. Shot with warmth and patience, it lets its subjects simply be, and finds grace in the ordinary business of growing old.

Why This Film Matters: Ageing is one of the few experiences that awaits us all, yet it is rarely portrayed with this much tenderness. A contemplative, humane meditation on later life that treats its elders as people with futures, not only pasts.