Granny Project
2017 , documentary
documentary
PREMIER (HUNGARY): 2018. 11. 1.
PREMIER (INTERNATIONAL): 2017. 11. 3.
“Granny Project” is a seven-year- long investigation of three young men coming to terms with their heritage through the extraordinary lives of their grandmothers: an English spy, a dancer from Nazi Germany and a Hungarian communist Holocaust survivor.
These guys move back and forth across Europe at the same time as their grandmothers set off on a virtual journey of memory. They transport their grannies back to their youth and in doing so provide us with an insight into the transcendental connection between grandparents and grandchildren, on the verge of the 21st century.
Granny Project is a coming of age story of three young men and a ‘coming out of age’ tale of their grandmothers, an experiment to form a language which the forthcoming generations could use to keep the values, generated in the 20th century, alive.
The film deals with classic values and taboo-like historical topics - and the method used is equally important as it gives an insight to the zeitgeist of the young today.
Creators
Bálint Révész | Director |
Meredith Colchester, Ruben Woodin-Dechamps, Bálint Révész | Screenplay |
Ruben Woodin-Dechamps | Director of photography |
Károly Szalay | Editor |
Albert Márkos | Music |
Gábor Erdélyi Jr. | Sound |
László Kántor, Bálint Révész | Producer |
Új Budapest Filmstúdió, Gallivant Film | Production company |
Mariann Kiss, Meredith Colchester, Ruben Woodin-Dechamps | Co-producer |
Rosanne Colchester, Gudrun Dechamps, Révész Lívia, Meredith Colchester, Ruben Woodin-Dechamps, Bálint Révész | Cast |
Awards
Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - 2017 | MDR Film Prize |
Taipei TIDF - 2018 | Next Generation Award |
Minsk Listapad - 2018 | Audience Award for Best Documentary Film |
Warsaw International "Jewish Motives" Film Festival - 2019 | Best Documentary |
Festivals
Zagreb ZagrebDox - 2018 | |
Copenhagen CPH:DOX - 2018 | (in competition) |
Prague One World - 2018 | (in competition) |
Toronto Hot Docs - 2018 | |
Moscow DOKer International Documentary Film Festival - 2018 | (in competition) |
Cluj-Napoca Transilvania - 2018 | |
Bergen International Film Festival - 2018 | |
Luxembourg CinÉast - 2018 | |
Targu-Mures AlterNative - 2018 | |
Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival - 2019 | |
Chesnok Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - 2019 | |
Tbilisi CinéDOC - 2019 |
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