THE DYBBUK. A TALE OF WANDERING SOULS

DYBUK. RZECZ O WĘDRÓWCE DUSZ

30 thousand Hasidim journey to Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of their holy leader Rebbe Nachman. A Ukrainian far-right group erects a cross at the site of Hasidic prayers and builds a monument to Cossacks who slaughtered thousands of Jews and Poles in 1768.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 85
  • Year: 2015
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Krzysztof Kopczyński

Script: Krzysztof Kopczyński

DOP: Jacek Petrycki, Serhij Stefan Stetsenko

Editing: Michał Leszczyłowski

Production company: Eureka Media - Krzysztof Kopczyński

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About the director:

Krzysztof Kopczyński

Krzysztof Kopczyński

Documentary filmmaker, PhD, Professor at the University of Warsaw. He produced over 50 documentaries which have been shown at festivals in 70 countries at least and won about140 awards. Director of documentaries “Stone Silence” (Afghanistan, 2007, screened in 40 countries) and “The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls” (Ukraine, 2015, 20 countries). He is a winner of 25 film awards and a member of the European Film Academy as well as the Polish Film Academy.

Filmography:

2015 – The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls

2007 – Stone Silence

At festivals:

55th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (Silver Hobby-Horse)

17th Annual Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, , 2015 (screening)

6th Odessa International Film Festival, Ukraine, 2015 (FIPRESCI Best Documentary)

7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)

58th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany , 2015 (screening)

12th Verzio International Documentary FF, Hungary, 2015 (competition)

12th Verzio International Documentary FF, Hungary, 2015 (screening)

28th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2015, Netherlands, 2015 (screening)

Artdoc Fest, Russia, 2015 (screening)

Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, Israel, 2015 (screening)

Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2016 (competition)

Washington Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)

26th Mediawave – Another Connection International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary, 2016 (competition)

13. Neiße Filmfestival, Germany, 2016 (competition)

Wales International Documentary Festival, UK, 2016 (competition)

IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2016 (screening)

Astra Film Festival 2016, Romania, 2016 (competition)

3rd Sose International Film Festival, Armenia, 2016 (competition)

Inconvenient Film Festival 2016, Lithuania, 2016 (screening)

Human Rights FF: Inconvenient Films, Lithuania, 2016 (screening)