- When the next generation are inspired by their grandmothers, it is time for a revolution.
- The film is an intimate story about their families that had similar destiny in the World War II period. That made Petra and Brand tackle the project which took them to Slovenia, Macedonia and Cuba, where Brand's father Carlos came from. "The point in all this is the twisted values of ethics in the past 20 years," Ferro said, stressing a sentence of his Cuban grandmother quoting Castro: "A better world is possible." The film starts with Brand and Petra and their idea to exchange genetic material and ends with their daughter Terra and a quote by a Cuban poet that children were born to be happy. They come to this point after they tell the tragic destinies - in Slovenia, through Petra's grandfather and the Domobran movement, and in Macedonia, through Brand's family story about his mother Ilinka Petrusevska and neighbor Milica Ruben and Kiro Gligorov, who remembers hiding Carlos in Skopje or the death of the most progressive member of the Petrusev family and fighter for independent Macedonia, uncle Brand Petrusev. The main character in Cuba is Carlos' mother who lived to see her son 42 year later and her grandchildren Brand and Alisia and Pablo for the first time. "The Grandmothers of Revolution" received exceptional reviews for the topic and rich visual contents with usage of archive materials from Slovenian and Cuban archives and private family files.—P.Seliskar
- Slovenian director Petra Seliskar investigates the role of ideology in her personal family history by means of interviews with her paternal grandfather, her Macedonian boyfriend Brand's maternal grandmother and his Cuban grandmother on his father's side. Illustrated by archive footage and home movies, her voice-over describes her family's personal story, Yugoslavia under Tito, and the recent war, accompanied by some particularly shocking footage. The nature shots and the alternation of classical, popular and revolutionary music occasionally lend the stories a light-hearted tone.—Anonymous
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By what name was Grandmothers of Revolution (2006) officially released in Canada in English?
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