DIE NOCH UNBEKANNTEN TAGE //
DAYS YET UNKNOWN
A documentary film by Jola WieczorekAT 2026 | 81min | b&w and color | German and Polish
LOGLINE
With letters, conversations, physically constructed spaces of memory, and Super 8 re-enactments, Jola Wieczorek reconstructs her family’s escape from Poland—an experience that culminated in a sense of estrangement that has accompanied the filmmaker to this day.
SYNOPSIS
When Jola Wieczorek becomes a mother while her own mother is simultaneously slipping into dementia, the time has come to pin down memories. In the 1980s, Wieczorek fled Poland as a child with her parents and younger brother and then grew up in Austria. In Days still unknown, she reconstructs places of memory from her parents’ letters, which they visit together and comment on, and travels back—like a road movie in reverse—to the first and last place where she never felt like a stranger. Days still unknown focuses on a state of permanent longing for arrival.
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With letters, conversations, physically constructed spaces of memory, and Super 8 re-enactments, Jola Wieczorek reconstructs her family’s escape from Poland—an experience that culminated in a sense of estrangement that has accompanied the filmmaker to this day.
SYNOPSIS
When Jola Wieczorek becomes a mother while her own mother is simultaneously slipping into dementia, the time has come to pin down memories. In the 1980s, Wieczorek fled Poland as a child with her parents and younger brother and then grew up in Austria. In Days still unknown, she reconstructs places of memory from her parents’ letters, which they visit together and comment on, and travels back—like a road movie in reverse—to the first and last place where she never felt like a stranger. Days still unknown focuses on a state of permanent longing for arrival.
© Anna
Katharina Laggner 2025
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BEST DOCUMENTARY at Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
Jury-Statement: This film takes us on a journey. Woven into a dense tapestry of present and past, of personal and collective history, we experience the process of remembering.
With great cinematic inventiveness, a narrative flow emerges that resonates on many levels, offering insight and lingering long after the film ends. It is a film about the preciousness—and at the same time the fragility—of memory. It makes visible the hardships of a history of flight without ever remaining stuck in pain. Through its playful openness, subtle humor, and the palpable sense of family cohesion, it leaves behind warmth and hope. The director creates an intimate portrait and, at the same time, an important political contribution to our present—an invitation to look closely while memories can still be told.
Jury Members: Ayşe Alacakaptan, Florian Brüning, Judith Keil
CONTACTS AND DOWNLOADS
Festival Sales: Austrian Films
Austrian Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih
Press Germany: Marie Ketzscher
Press Austria: Valerie Besl
Austrian Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih
Press Germany: Marie Ketzscher
Press Austria: Valerie Besl
CREDITS
Writer / Director: Jola Wieczorek
Production: Fahrenheit Films e.U.
Producer: Jola Wieczorek
Line producer: Hanne Lassl
Camera: Serafin Spitzer, Klemens Koscher
Editing: Ewa Golis, Rubén Rocha
Editing consultant: Kasia Boniecka, Asia Dér
Dramaturgy: Nina Kusturica
Production: Fahrenheit Films e.U.
Producer: Jola Wieczorek
Line producer: Hanne Lassl
Camera: Serafin Spitzer, Klemens Koscher
Editing: Ewa Golis, Rubén Rocha
Editing consultant: Kasia Boniecka, Asia Dér
Dramaturgy: Nina Kusturica
Scenograhphy: Andrej Rutar, Olga Steiner, Ola Winnicka
Costume Design: Denise Leisentritt
Music Composer: Dorit Chrysler
Direct Sound: Andreas Hamza, Andreas Pils
Sounddesign: Victoria Dopplinger
Sound Mixing: Manuel Meichsner
Production Assistant: Marcin Ratajczak, Marcin Krasnowolski
Costume Design: Denise Leisentritt
Music Composer: Dorit Chrysler
Direct Sound: Andreas Hamza, Andreas Pils
Sounddesign: Victoria Dopplinger
Sound Mixing: Manuel Meichsner
Production Assistant: Marcin Ratajczak, Marcin Krasnowolski
SUPPORTED BY:
A Green Filming Production ÖFI+ // Green Bonus
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