THE DYBBUK. A TALE OF WANDERING SOULS
POLISH TITLE: DYBUK. RZECZ O WĘDRÓWCE DUSZ
30 thousand Hasidim journey to Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of their holy leader Rebbe Nachman. A Ukrainian far-right group erects a cross at the site of Hasidic prayers and builds a monument to Cossacks who slaughtered thousands of Jews and Poles in 1768.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 85'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- DIRECTING:
- Krzysztof Kopczyński
- SCRIPT:
- Krzysztof Kopczyński
- DOP:
- Jacek Petrycki, Serhij Stefan Stetsenko
- EDITOR:
- Michał Leszczyłowski
- PRODUCER:
- Eureka Media - Krzysztof Kopczyński
Krzysztof Kopczyński »
A Doctor of Humanities, university lecturer, during the martial law period he was an underground publisher. Since 1995 he has been a producer and director of documentaries. An owner of the Eureka Media company, author of books and articles on the media, film and culture of the 19th century and contemporary period. A coauthor of educational film projects Russia – Poland. New Gaze and Kabul – My City. He produced more than 130 films and TV programmes that were shown in more than 30 countries and won more than 50 festival awards. Stone silence is his directing debut.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Inconvenient Film Festival 2016, Lithuania, 2016 (screening)
- Human Rights FF: Inconvenient Films, Lithuania, 2016 (screening)
- 3rd Sose International Film Festival, Armenia, 2016 (competition)
- Astra Film Festival 2016, Romania, 2016 (competition)
- IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2016 (screening)
- Wales International Documentary Festival, UK, 2016 (competition)
- 13. Neiße Filmfestival, Germany, 2016 (competition)
- 26th Mediawave – Another Connection International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary, 2016 (competition)
- Washington Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)
- Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2016 (competition)
- Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, Israel, 2015 (screening)
- Artdoc Fest, Russia, 2015 (screening)
- 28th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015, Netherlands, 2015 (screening)
- 12th Verzio International Documentary FF 2015, Hungary, 2015 (competition)
- 12th Verzio International Documentary FF 2015, Hungary, 2015 (screening)
- 58th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 2015 (screening)
- 7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)
- 6th Odessa International Film Festival, Ukraine, 2015 (FIPRESCI Best Documentary)
- 17th Annual Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival,, 2015 (screening)
- 55th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (Silver Hobby-Horse)