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
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
13'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Izabela Zubrycka
SCRIPT:
Izabela Zubrycka
DOP:
Stefan Żółtowski
EDITOR:
Anna Adamowicz
PRODUCTION:
PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)