The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls (16+)
Poland, Ukraine, Sweden, 2015, colour, 86 min.
Director: Krzysztof Kopczyński
Director: Krzysztof Kopczyński
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 during a national rebellion.
AWARDS
Moscow Jewish FF, Russia: Winner in the Category «Conflict»; Near Nazareth NN Festival, Israel: Winner in the feature length documentary competition; IFF „Jewish Motifs”, Poland: Warsaw Phoenix – Antoni Marianowicz Award for the Best Polish Film; Nice IFF South of France: Nominations: Best Editing of a Documentary, Best Director of a Foreign Language Documentary; Carnegie Mellon IFF «Faces of Conflict», India: Special Jury Mention for Feature Documentary.
Krzysztof Kopczyński
Krzysztof Kopczyński
is an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. From 1995 also a documentary filmmaker working at the international market, the CEO of the Eureka Media Production Company. A member of the European Film Academy and the Polish Film Academy. He produced over 150 audiovisual works, including 50 documentaries which have been shown in 70 countries at least and won about 140 festival awards. The winner of 22 film awards.
FILMOGRAPHY
Stone Silence, 2007; The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls, 2015.
Poland, Ukraine, Sweden, 2015, colour, 86 min.
Director: Krzysztof Kopczyński
Director: Krzysztof Kopczyński
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 during a national rebellion.
AWARDS
Moscow Jewish FF, Russia: Winner in the Category «Conflict»; Near Nazareth NN Festival, Israel: Winner in the feature length documentary competition; IFF „Jewish Motifs”, Poland: Warsaw Phoenix – Antoni Marianowicz Award for the Best Polish Film; Nice IFF South of France: Nominations: Best Editing of a Documentary, Best Director of a Foreign Language Documentary; Carnegie Mellon IFF «Faces of Conflict», India: Special Jury Mention for Feature Documentary.