Jurek loses his grown-up daughter Masia, and his grandfather Ben travels from Scotland to Poland to take part of the funeral. Ben wants the unmarried Masia to be buried according to an old Chinese tradition called Minghun; a funeral and a wedding for two unmarried, deceased people. We follow Jurek and Ben in their search for a suitable deceased young man and their, occasionally disagreeing, reasoning about the afterlife.

Minghun is a solemn movie that allows the loss and sorrow for the dead to take place. Director Jan P. Matuszynski debuted with his full-length movie The last family in 2017 about a Polish artist, Zdzislaw Beksinski, and his family. Critics were impressed that the movie was captivating despite taking place in two “claustrophobically” small apartments in a living area outside Warsaw, and without any particular dramaturgical manipulations. Minghun also mostly takes place in an apartment, but this time in a big airy apartment with multiple rooms in a row.

– Petra Wikström