The Pawnshop

A sign outside a Polish pawn shop boasts that they buy and sell almost anything. This documentary substantiates that claim.

Documentaries about people and their day-to-day lives are the original reality shows. The characters are the hardworking owners of a pawn shop brimful of treasure and trash, and their staff. The camera casts a cold eye and we encounter a few customers as well hearing from people up against hard times. There's nothing fancy or enhanced about the people or the cinematography, the realism is uncompromising and rewarding viewing for being so. Pawn this way.

MIFF 2022
81 mins