Northwest Film Forum

Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American society through the lens of personal history. REMAKE is McElwee’s attempt to hold onto his son, Adrian, and to let him go, built from decades of home movies.

As Nazism rises in Germany, American Sally Bowles sings in a decadent nightclub and falls for a British teacher whom she shares with a gay German baron.

Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American society through the lens of personal history. REMAKE is McElwee’s attempt to hold onto his son, Adrian, and to let him go, built from decades of home movies.