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Three Minutes - A Lengthening

Three Minutes - A Lengthening

In 2009, Glenn Kurtz discovered a crumbling 16mm colour home movie in his parents’ closet — amateur footage his grandfather David shot in 1938 on a European holiday. The film included three minutes of what would turn out to be the only known footage of the predominantly Jewish town of Nasielsk, Poland — David Kurtz’s birthplace — just one year before the Nazi occupation would destroy the community, leaving fewer than 100 survivors of the Holocaust. 

Decades later, Dutch director Bianca Stigter — with the help of narrator Helena Bonham Carter — dives deep into this precious fragment. Through inventive assemblage and intimate reflections, the footage unfurls into a poignant cinematic meditation on memory and loss that demonstrates the power of the film medium to bear witness. 

  • Rating

    E

  • Director

    Bianca Stigter

  • Cast

    Helena Bonham Carter

  • Language

    English, Polish, German, Yiddish