1980

Dis-moi

Tell Me

France, 1980 / 16mm / Colour / 45min
Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman


“ Sur les grand-mères. Je n'ai plus de grand-mère. Ma mère en voix off parle de sa grand-mère.”

Dis-moi

France, 1980 / 16mm / Colour / 45min

Cast: Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman

Production: INA / TF1 (Paris), for the collection "Grands-mères", proposed by Jean Frapat

Sound: Xavier Vauthrin, André Siekierski

Editing: Francine Sandberg

Photography: Maurice Perrimond, Michel Davaud, Francis Lapeyre

An intimate documentary portrait of three elderly spirited Jewish women who survived the Holocaust. They invite Akerman into their Paris apartments, feed and regale her with stories about exile and deportation alongside those about love and acts of kindness, while also chiding, ‘Eat or else I won’t tell you the rest’. Meanwhile, Akerman’s own mother can be heard on voiceover discussing her grandmother, who she lived with after she returned from Auschwitz, where her parents died.


For any request about Chantal Akerman’s Film Dis-moi, you can contact the foundation at:

works@chantalakerman.foundation