How Do You Measure a Year? (2021)

Directed by

Jay Rosenblatt

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

29 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A father films his daughter every year on her birthday from age two to eighteen. The movie captures the changes in her looks, thoughts, and personality over time.

intimatereflectivetenderobservationalpoignantheartfeltpersonalyearly

What happens

How Do You Measure a Year? is a 2021 American short documentary film directed by Jay Rosenblatt. The documentary film is about a father–daughter relationship. The title comes from lyrics of the track "Seasons of Love" from the 1996 Pulitzer Prize–winning musical Rent. The film was nominated for the 95th Academy Awards in Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film category. It was also screened in August 2021 at the 74th Locarno Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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