'Film Everybody's Oma premiered at Sydney Film Festival'

Last weekend the film Everybody's Oma premiered at the Sydney Film Festival. In the film, filmmaker Jason van Genderen shows in a respectful way how his life, and the lives of his wife Megan and children, gets increasingly dominated by the care for his mother who has Dementia and Alzheimer's. The big question is 'When is it too much?' We spoke to Jason and Megan at the film festival.

The Film Everybody's Oma premiered at the Sydney Film Festival, 11/06/2022 Source: Facebook Everybody's Oma

Oma Appelsauce

Over 140,000 people have followed the adventures of the cheerful and Dutch born Hendrika 'Oma' van Genderen, Jason, his wife Megan and their children, via the Facebook page Oma Appelsauce. 

The family went viral in early 2020, thanks to a video showing how the family transformed their house into a Coles supermarket, so that Oma could continue to do her shopping during lockdown. After this success, and an overwhelmingly amount of responses, more videos starring Oma followed. The videos were funny and touching, but also confronting and heartbreaking. They got responses from around the world, including from people who recognized the situation. Jason then decided to turn his journey with Oma into a film.

Oma passed away on February 17, 2022 at the age of 89.

Everybody's Oma

The film Everybody's Oma will be screened in cinemas across the country from 11 August. Click here for more information.