STRZĘPY

The second feature film by documentary director Beata Dzianowicz takes us to the Paterok family in a small Silesian town, who all live together in an apartment. The mood among the three generations is cheerful and loving. Until Alzheimer's breaks out in Gerard, who is around 60 years old. He suddenly puts his SLR camera in the dishwasher or urinates in a flower pot in front of his students during a lecture. Soon it becomes increasingly more of a challenge for the family’s life. Adam is almost manically interested only in his father and is putting his own marriage and relationship with his daughter at risk. Gerard himself is becoming more and more of a danger to everyone. In SHREDS, Dzianowicz is less interested in Alzheimer's disease than in its effects on a previously intact family life. A film with therapeutic recognition value for everyone who has been through or is currently going through such or similar situations.

Text: Jörg Taszman