Filmmaker Alenka Maly from Linz was the one who initiated this project, taking her own intense \u201cconversational relationship\u201c with her grandmother as an incentive for this trans-European oral history film project. In the year 2015 she started a search and found eight like-minded European filmmakers who simultaneously made portraits of their grandmothers in Israel, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Bulgaria, Russia, England, Turkey and Austria. Born in the 20s and early 30s of the past century, these women tell their filming granddaughters about war, political changes, love and daily life in Europe of their time. Almost all of the grandmothers are over 90 years of age. They recall anecdotes, love stories and terrible tragedies while going about their daily business, sitting at the hairdresser\u2019s or relaxing. Their stories are told with a captivating frankness and brim with profound humour.<\/span><\/p>\n Alenka Maly and her companions have achieved two milestones in their work of art: On the one hand, they have managed to create a coherent panorama of European contemporary history. On the other hand, they have erected a visual monument to this group of strong women; a monument which will make it possible for future generations to get an insight into some darker chapters of the 20th century in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n
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