Dis-moi

Chantal Akerman directed this documentary as part of a thematic series of TV films about grandmothers. Echoing the voice of her own mother who told her about her relationships with her own mother and grandmother, the filmmaker visits three elderly Jewish women and asks them to talk about their ancestors. Seated in their living rooms, filmed in fixed shots, these grandmothers recount their memories, the life of Jewish communities before the war, and the efforts to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.