HANDFUL OF DIRT
POLISH TITLE: GARSTKA ZIEMI
Is it possible to envision one’s funeral? Halina is one of the last funeral singers in Podlasie. Her son Andrzej is a gravedigger. Over the years they have accompanied thousands of people to the other side. He dug, she sung. In their everyday existence, life and death intermingle. The ordinary with the ghostly. Reality with dreams. The silence is broken by the tune of a funeral song.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 13'
- YEAR:
- 2023
- COLOUR:
- kolorowy
- DIRECTING:
- Izabela Zubrycka
- SCRIPT:
- Izabela Zubrycka
- DOP:
- Stefan Żółtowski
- PRODUCER:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
AT FESTIVALS:
- BEAST International Film Festival (2024, Portugal), 2024 (EAST DOC AWARD za Najlepszy Film Dokumentalny)
- Silhouette Film Festival (2024, France), 2024 (competition)
- 31st Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival (2024,Poland), 2024 (Honorowe wyróżnienie)
- BELDOCS International Documentary Film Festival (2024, Serbia), 2024 (screening)
- 70th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2024, Germany), 2024 (competition)
- Festival First Look - Museum of Moving Image (2024, USA), 2024 (screening)
- FIPADOC International Documentary Festival (2024, France), 2024 (screening)
- International Student Film and Video Festival (2023, China), 2023 (competition)
- EnergaCamerimage (2023, Poland), 2023 (competition)
- Jihlava International Documentary FF (2023, Czech Republic), 2023 (competition)
- San Sebastian (2023, Spain), 2023 (competition)
- 20th Millennium Docs Against Gravity MDAG (2023, Poland), 2023 (competition)
- Chiayi International Art Documentary Film Festival (2024, Taiwan), 2023 (screening)