Nana

Synopsis

Nana is the documentary account of the lives, loves and experiences of four grandmothers as told to their own granddaughters. Filmed against a backdrop as culturally and filmically diverse as England, Palestine, Israel, France and New York, their stories are woven together to expose the rich, universal fabric of family emotions.





In London, Alison opens her story in conversation with her quintessentially English grandmother Kitty. In stark contrast, in Palestine Suheir approaches her grandmother Rashida with the respect due to the matriarch of 100 descendents. Fabienne is in New York, a world apart from Simone. Feeling responsible for her grandmother's imposed isolation, she goes to her in France to confront her guilt. Over in Israel, Ruti reincarnates images from her childhood where her highly spirited grandmother Blanche feeds her 'the moon'.





On one level, Nana questions the idea of 'a common destiny'. How much do we learn from our grandparents? Do we inevitably replicate them or do we simply beat our own paths in life? A many-stranded movie, Nana takes an inside look at who our grandmothers really are.

Details

Year

1998

Type of film

Features

Running Time

96 mins

Format

35mm Fuji

Director

Fabienne Bouville, Alison King, Suheir Ishmail, Ruti Gadish

Producer

Alison King, Fabienne Bouville

Director of Photography

Alan James, Hélène Louvart, Ron Katzenelson, Kasim Abid

Principal Cast

Kitty King, Blanche Soury, Rashida Jabir and Simone Levet

Screen Writers

Fabienne Bouville, Alison King, Suheir Ishmail, Ruti Gadish

Genre

Production status

Complete

Please let us know if we need to make any amendments to this Film entry mailing us directly at

Last updated 26th November 2005