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:
- 2023
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Izabela Zubrycka
- SCRIPT:
- Izabela Zubrycka
- DOP:
- Stefan Żółtowski
- EDITOR:
- Anna Adamowicz
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
AT FESTIVALS:
- Chiayi International Art Documentary Film Festival (2024, Taiwan), 2023 (screening)
- FIPADOC International Documentary Festival (2024, France), 2024 (screening)
- Festival First Look - Museum of Moving Image (2024, USA), 2024 (screening)
- BELDOCS International Documentary Film Festival (2024, Serbia), 2024 (screening)
- 20th Millennium Docs Against Gravity MDAG (2023, Poland), 2023 (competition)
- San Sebastian (2023, Spain), 2023 (competition)
- Jihlava International Documentary FF (2023, Czech Republic), 2023 (competition)
- EnergaCamerimage (2023, Poland), 2023 (competition)
- International Student Film and Video Festival (2023, China), 2023 (competition)
- 70th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2024, Germany), 2024 (competition)
- Silhouette Film Festival (2024, France), 2024 (competition)
- 31st Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival (2024,Poland), 2024 (Honorowe wyróżnienie)
- BEAST International Film Festival (2024, Portugal), 2024 (EAST DOC AWARD za Najlepszy Film Dokumentalny)