What happens when you grew up in a family that’s been silent about its past and you suddenly find a guide to your roots far away from home? I started to discover my Eastern European identity in a once-flourishing Jewish community in Cochin, South India. But as I got to know better my newly found ‘Jewish grandmother’ SARAH, I realized that she’s also hiding secrets from me. With the help of three wardens of memory – a Muslim tailor, a Synagogue keeper, and a graffiti artist – I slowly became another warden of sweet memories and bitter stories of discrimination.
Klára Trencsényi
Klára Trencsényi (1975) is an Hungerian director and cinematographer committed to creative and social documentaries. She graduated from the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest as Director of Photography in 2006.
Prior to her first feature length award-winning documentary, Train to Adulthood, she directed two mid-length documentaries (Corvin Variations, 2011, Birds Way, 2009), and a short documentary (3 Weddings: Elena & Leo, 2009).
She has done extensive social and voluntary work with Roma and Irish travelers and worked as photographer and journalist in Kosovo, Ukraine and Romania.