synopsis
Halina is one of the last singers of mourning songs from Podlasie in eastern Poland. Her son Andrzej works as a gravedigger. For many years, they have accompanied others on their final journey. Death, before which modern society closes its eyes, is for them a natural part of life in which they find security and peace.
“When you’ve dealt with funerals for over ten years, then well, everything happens.”
biography
Izabela Zubrycka (born 1998) is a student of film and television directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz and a graduate of journalism and photography at Warsaw University and the Wajda School. She has made the short films
Whispers (2019) and
Handful of Dirt.
film details
| director: | Izabela Zubrycka |
| producer: | Agata Golańska |
| photography: | Stefan Żółtowski |
| editing: | Anna Adamowicz |
| music: | Trzciannianki, Marek Dutkiewicz, Katarzyna Gärtner, Halina Frąckowiak |
| sound design: | Maciej Tobera |
contact
Izabela Zubrycka / izabela.zubrycka@tlen.pl
Info
| director: | Izabela Zubrycka |
| original title: | Garstka ziemi |
| country: | Poland |
| year: | 2023 |
| running time: | 13 min. |
