The European Grandma Oral History Project ( The European Grandma Project, a Europe-wide initiative launched in 2015 by Austrian actress and director Alenka Maly, focuses on elderly European women who lived through World War II and how the experience of war shaped their personal histories and contemporary lives.

After issuing a call for submissions from across Europe, Marley reached out to other women from Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States. The nine women directors and their grandmothers worked together to create the documentary.

The grandmothers, generally over 80 years old, give oral accounts of the history of war in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, as well as some of their feelings about political, social and human rights changes over the years. Each grandmother's story was filmed by a different director and finally re-edited together by Marley.

When viewed together, these stories reveal that even when faced with the same events, their personal experiences and feelings are completely different due to the different contexts and circumstances. Underneath the 80-minute compact narrative, the interplay of macro, shared basic historical facts and personal narratives creates an interesting magnetic field. The intimate interactions between the granddaughter and grandmother also make this alternative oral history documentary quite warm and poetic.