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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. 

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Festival Sales: Austrian Films
Austrian Distribution: Stadtkino Filmverleih
Press Germany: Marie Ketzscher
Press Austria: Valerie Besl

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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

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