Award-winning filmmaker Lance OPPENHEIM (USA) explores in his films the lives of people who create homes in unconventional spaces and places. His short documentary films have been screened at several film festivals over the world, including Tribeca Film Festival. In 2019, Oppenheim graduated from Harvard University's Visual and Environmental Studies programme. <strong>Some Kind of Heaven</strong> is his first feature-length documentary.

Lance Oppenheim

In The Villages in Florida, 130,000 retirees live the dream they have worked so hard for. Until reality comes knocking at the door.

Endless rounds of golf and exercises every morning – the ideal for more than 130,000 residents of one of the biggest ‘retirement reservations’ in the United States: The Villages in Florida. But what about those people who, in spite of all the fruit shakes, nevertheless end up facing sickness and death?

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Lance Oppenheim

Filmography

Lance Oppenheim at IFFR

Some Kind of Heaven