Super LTD Acquires North American Rights to the Helena Bonham Carter-Narrarted Holocaust Documentary “Three Minutes — A Lengthening”

Helena Bonham Carter is spending three minutes in theaters…

Super LTD has acquired the North American rights to Bianca Stigter’s Holocaust documentary Three Minutes — A Lengthening, narrated by the 55-year-old part-Spanish English actress.

Helena Bonham Carter

Co-produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen, the documentary will be released in theaters next year.

Stigter’s first feature-length doc centers on a three-minute home movie shot by David Kurtz on a European holiday in 1938, in a Jewish town in Poland.

The amateur footage— discovered by Kurtz’s grandson, writer Glenn Kurtz, in his parents’ Florida home—captures the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk just one year before the Nazis invaded. Most were eventually killed in the Treblinka extermination camp.

Family Affairs FilmsFloor Onrust produced Stigter’s meditation on history and memory with Lammas Park, with the support of The Netherlands Film Fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

The film made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival before screening in Telluride and Toronto. Its upcoming stops on the festival circuit include the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam and DOC NYC.

Stigter is a Dutch historian and cultural critic who writes essays for Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. She previously collaborated with McQueen as an associate producer on his films 12 Years a Slave and Widows, and published the book Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945 in 2019.