UKJFF 2022: Three Minutes: A Lengthening

3,000 Jews lived in the small Polish town of Nasielsk before the war; fewer than 100 survived it. A three-minute excerpt of a home movie filmed in 1938 captures the curious and animated faces of men, women and children outside the synagogue. It conveys their excitement, caused by the rare presence of a movie camera, as the knowledge of what followed triggers a sense of incomprehensible loss. Co-produced by British filmmaker Steve McQueen and narrated by actress Helena Bonham Carter, this mesmerising, poignant essay film offers a rare glimpse into a vanished world.

“This rousing documentary about a Jewish town in Poland is a haunting meditation on the memory of the Holocaust” – The New York Times. Part of the Alan Howard International Documentary Film Strand