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During the Covid lockdown, the director’s grandmother passed away. While exploring his family’s archives, he found an audio recording of her voice and several old photo albums. Composed entirely of photographs, this film tells the story of her life set against the backdrop of the historical changes Romania underwent in the 20th century.

“Similar in form to Radu Jude’s potent Holocaust documentary, The Dead Nation (2017), this is primary history at its most simple and effective. The monochrome pictures are mostly carefully posed, yet capture the personalities of the sitters and the times in which they lived. It’s nicely done and should inspire anyone with a family archive to make their own photo-memoir.”

David Parkinson – Parky at the Pictures

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