Project Detail

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 project
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

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Production Status

Production Company

Rag Films International Ltd 3 Court Royal Carlton Drive London SW15 2BJ Tel/Fax: 020 8789 7172 E Mail: rag@dircon.co.uk

Sales Company

as Production Company Fabienne Bouville Rag Films International Ltd (North America/Canada) 262 Mott Street #506 New York NY 10012 Tel/Fax: 212 334 9341 E Mail: f6206@is6.nyu.edu

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