Dis-moi (Documentary)
In an attempt to understand her own lineage, Akerman visits the homes of three women who survived the Holocaust.
Commissioned to make a mid-length film on the subject of grandmothers for the French television series Grand-mères, Chantal Akerman created one of the earliest known works of oral history on film about the Holocaust. In voiceover, the director’s mother Natalia (No Home Movie) remembers her own grandmother and mother who died in Auschwitz; while, on camera and in real time, Akerman visits the homes of three older Jewish women who – occasionally chiding the director about her lack of appetite – share their own histories of their grandmothers, bringing life back to generations of women who were lost to them.
2K Digitisation.
This film screens with Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman.