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Glass Negatives

  • Poland
  • Documentary
  • 2020
  • 39 min.
  • Director(s): Jan Borowiec
  • Producer(s): Wojciech Marczewski, Karolina Mróz, Zuzanna Król

Synopsis

During the renovation of a tenement house in Lublin a team of builders discovered a collection of almost 3000 glass negatives. The discovery becomes the starting point for a fascinating journey in time and space. An attempt to find out who took the pictures leads to surprising findings. The retrieved photos show the world, brittle as a pane of glass, which was soon to disappear, shattered into millions of pieces. Thanks to the photos, witnesses’ memories and the atmospheric music by Kroke, we can put this world back together, even if only for a moment.

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Credits

Director(s)

Jan Borowiec

Producer(s)

Wojciech Marczewski, Karolina Mróz, Zuzanna Król

Script

Jan Borowiec

Cinematography

Jakub Kowalczyk

Editor

Marcin Szymański PSM

Original Music

Kroke

Cast

Marcin Sudziński, Tal Schwartz, Krzysztof Janus, Mikołaj Grynberg, Mieczysław Zych, Irit Hass, Hana Rozbruch, Regina Winograd, David Skolsky, Tzvi Meir

Original Language

Hebrew, Polish, English

Subtitles

English, French

Sound designer

Grzegorz Kucharski

Festival Highlights

  • WINNER

    Best Short Documentary
    Master of Art International Film Festival
    2021

Master of Art International Film Festival, Bulgaria, Competition, 2021

Encounters, South Africa, 2021

Montreal International History Film Festival (FIFHM), Canada, 2021

San Diego Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2021

Buffalo International Film Festival, USA, 2020

Krakow International Film Festival, Poland, National Competition, 2020