The unusual technique of sand animation is used to tell the story of a woman and her granddaughter. It starts with them sitting at the kitchen table playing cards. As the cards are shuffled and cut, the film cuts between pre-war Poland, Europe in the Holocaust, the woman’s childhood and the present. The old woman’s homeland is evoked as a world the child strives to create from anecdotes. The woman’s present is shown as one etched with darkness of her family’s experience of the Holocaust.
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B1003580
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MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode
Digital Betacam; Master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master