This compact, searing documentary movingly captures a moment in time while honoring lives soon lost to unspeakable horror. The filmmakers unfold the three-minute amateur film at its center with emotionally charged complexity to more fully illuminate the story of a small Polish village and its unsuspecting Jewish residents.
“Three Minutes is more than a documentary about the Holocaust — it is an investigative drama, a meditation on the ethics of moving images and a ghost story about people who might be forgotten should we take those images for granted.” — Beatrice Loayza, The New York Times
“A snapshot, a memorial, a knotty philosophical detective story and a devastating account of Nazi atrocities. It’s also an extended rumination on the illusory, entropic nature of the cinematic medium itself.” — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
directed by
Bianca Stigter
Bianca Stigter
written by
Bianca Stigter
Bianca Stigter
with
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter
language
English, Polish, German, Yiddish
English, Polish, German, Yiddish
country
Netherlands, United Kingdom
Netherlands, United Kingdom