2026荷兰·波兰纪录片·短片
The film follows an encounter between the ghost of a possessed girl, trapped for centuries within a stone, and the director’s 102-year-old grandmother, confined to her living room and waiting for death. The ghost, tied to a Polish folktale about the mysterious Kontrewers stone, becomes drawn to the pious older woman, mistaking her for its long-lost mother. What begins as a haunting turns into a surreal and tender dialogue, where both parties transform the traces of repression and inheritance beyond bloodlines. Conjuring this encounter between themself, their grandmother and the haunted relic, the filmmaker interweaves archival, staged and documentary materials. The act of filming becomes a relational practice of witnessing: an attempt to let their grandmother’s presence, at the verge of death, leave a trace, entangled with all those whose care, trauma and survival she carries. Kontrewers thus reimagines possession as a non-linear mode of communication, as a negotiation of boundaries between self and other. What was once buried resurfaces in the vibrations between generations through the persistence of matter, bodies and gestures: the media through which memory insists on being felt.