DUST

PROCH

Dust is a study of the way that every human body must go through from the moment of death to the funeral. In Jakub Radej’s film, the consecutive stages of the way (mortuary, morgue, cemetery) are juxtaposed with a bureaucratic approach to the property of the deceased. A detached account of the fate of material objects that belonged to the deceased is presented in an open form, which may also include a question about the meaning of life and a reflection on the loneliness of people who have no one to bid them farewell.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 25
  • Year: 2017
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Jakub Radej

Script: Jakub Radej

DOP: Józefina Gocman

Editing: Jakub Radej

Sound: Tomasz Dukszta C.A.S. , Jan Chojnacki, Maciej Krakówka

Production company: Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)

About the director:

Jakub Radej

Jakub Radej

He was born in 1991 in Cieszyn, and lives in Warsaw. He’s a graduate of the Film Kindergarten in the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Currently he studies culture at Radio and Television Department of the Silesian University. An aficionado of works by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Kim Ki-duk.

At festivals:

57. Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (Special Mention)

18th New Horizons Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)

33rd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)

25th Camerimage Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (screening)

12th Miradas Doc International Documentary Film Festival, Spain, 2018 (Mejor Ópera Prima)

Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, France, 2018 (Best Documentary)

Tampere Film Festival 2018, Finland, 2018 (screening)

Febiofest, Slovakia, 2018 (Best Short Film)

Short Waves 2018, Poland, 2018 (3rd Prize)

10th Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2018 (competition)

It's All True - International Documentary FF, Brasil, 2018 (competition)

DOKer Moscow, Russia, 2018 (Best Short Documentary)

Sehsüchte Film Festival, Germany, 2018 (Special Mention)

5th Opavsky Pav, The Czech Republic , 2018 (Audience Award)

Leiden Internatonal Short Film Experience, The Netherlands, 2018 (competition)

Euganea FF, Italy, 2018 (competition)

FEST — New Directors | New Films Festival, Portugal, 2018 (Melhor Curta - metragem de Documentário)

16th Tabor Film Festival - International Short Film Festival, Croatia, 2018 (competition)

KO:SH Film Fest, Albania, 2018 (competition)

Lago Film Festival, Italy, 2018 (competition)

Sarajevo FF, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018 (competition)

Odense FF, Denmark, 2018 (competition)

L'Étrange Festival, France, 2018 (competition)

Quebec City Film Festival, Canada, 2018 (Grand Prix)

DMZ Docs, South Korea, 2018 (competition)

Curtocircuito IFF, Spain, 2018 (Special Mention)

13th Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan, 2018 (competition)

Astra Film Festival, Romania, 2018 (competition)

dokumentART- European Film Festival for Documentaries, Germany, 2018 (competition)

Kaoshiung Film Festival,Taiwan, 2018 (competition)

Filmets Badalona, Spain, 2018 (Venus of Badalona for Best European Film)

Early Bird Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2018 (competition)

28th Cottbus Film Festival, Germany, 2018 (screening)

Escales Documentaiers, France, 2018 (screening)

Lublijana IFF, Slovenia, 2018 (competition)

Court En Scene Film Festival, France, 2018 (competition)

START International Short FF, Azerbaijan, 2018 (competition)

Cinemaiubit International Student Film Festival, Romania, 2018 (competition)

17.Internationales Festival Zeichen Der Nacht, Germany, 2019 (Signs Award)

FIPA DOC, France, 2019 (competition)

Córtex - Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2019 (competition)

Cineglobe, Switzerland, 2019 (Best Documentary)

West Side Mountains Doc Fest, Greece, 2019 (competition)

Moviezone Short Film Festival 2021, China, 2021 (screening)

Ground Art Fest Armenia, 2021 (screening)

Kunsttage Basel 2024, Switzerland, 2024 (screening)