THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING

Bianca Stigter | 2021 | 69 min | English spoken

Three Minutes - A Lengthening shows an amateur film, mainly in color, shot by David Kurtz in 1938 of the Jewish inhabitants of a small town in Poland and tries to postpone its end. This is the only known moving image of the Jewish residents of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. By repeating the short images over and over, the documentary investigates which stories are hidden in the almost decayed celluloid, in order to commemorate a forgotten history. As long as we look, history is not over. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the essay about film, history and memory.

Main cast Helena Bonham Carter

Writer & director Bianca Stigter Producer Floor Onrust, Family Affair Films Editor Katharina Wartena Sound design Mark Glynne Composer Wilko Sterke Co-producer Lammas Park, Steve McQueen full cast and crew

Distributor Netherlands Cinema Delicatessen Distributor Europe Autlook Distributor Unites States Neon Financers Netherlands Film Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, VPRO, Critic’s Choice

Festivals Gioronate degli Autori 2021, IDA Documentary Awards 2022, European Film Awards 2022, Premiers Plans d’Angers 2022, Goteborg Film Festival 2022, Sundance 2022, Palm Springs International Film Festival 2022, DOC NYC 2021, Toronto International Film Festival 2021, Telluride 2021

Wins Yad Vashem Award for an Outstanding Holocaust-related Documentary DocAviv 2022, Best Documentary Dublin International Film Festival 2022, Best Documentary Jury Prize Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2022