Handful of Dirt

Izabela Zubrycka / Poland / 2023 / Czech Premiere / 13 min.

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.

more about film

director:	Izabela Zubrycka
producer:	Agata Golańska
photography:	Stefan Żółtowski
editing:	Anna Adamowicz
music:	Trzciannianki, Marek Dutkiewicz, Katarzyna Gärtner, Halina Frąckowiak
sound design:	Maciej Tobera