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Kredens + Documents

Jacob Dammas, Poland, Denmark, 2007, 2004, 36 min

"KREDENS", Poland, Denmark 2007, 26 min.
40 years after his Polish-Jewish mother and family escaped Poland to Denmark, Jacob, a young Danish film director, visits the building in Wrocław where the family lived. He tries to engage in conversations with the current tenants about a piece of furniture left there, an old German credenza. During the search, Jacob also involves his mother over the phone, which opens up new clues and wider perspectives. A personal, tragicomic story about how history and displacement of people affects the identity ... read more

28.10, Saturday | 17:30 | Muzeum POLIN

Larissa

Alexandre Dayet, France, Poland, 2022, 43 min

At the end of 1942, 10-year-old Larissa escapes from the Warsaw Ghetto by climbing a ladder... On the "Aryan" side, she is taken and will be protected by a Polish family. A 16-year-old Helena looks after Larissa and treats her like a younger sister. A few weeks later, Larissa has to leave the flat. The girl and Helena will be apart from now. Seventy years after these events, Larissa, living in Paris, feels the need to go to Poland and encounter Helena. AFTER THE SCREENING MEETING WITH FILMMAKER!

29.10, Sunday | 16:30 | Muzeum POLIN

LETTER TO A PIG

Tal Kantor, Israel, 2022, 17 min

Bored students sit in class with a Holocaust survivor. When the ridiculous old man reads out his letter to the pig that saved his life, the sensitive girl lets her imagination run wild. The boundary between animal and human nature blurs.

26.10, Thursday | 18:00 | Centrum Kultury Jidysz / Center for Yiddish Culture

March 1968

Krzysztof Lang, Poland , 2022, 117 min

Hania studies at the State Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw. One day, she attends a theatrical premiere of Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve) by Adam Mickiewicz, a literary work that is an expression of the deepest patriotic feelings, an image of the nation's suffering in captivity and an image of the struggle against an invader. The then government believed that "Dziady" was an allusion to its ruling and it may instigate uprisings. At the premiere, Hania meets Janek, a student of the university of technology. Their meeting is the beginning of great ... read more

26.10, Thursday | 19:00 | KinoGram

MAZAL TOV

Amit Shamir, Israel, 2022, 13 min

A traumatic military event sent two friends on different life paths. One became the quintessential family man, while the other prefers plants to people. Child's innocuous birthday party incinerates any attempt of "normalcy" for both of them. Mazal Tov indeed!

25.10, Wednesday | 18:00 | Centrum Kultury Jidysz / Center for Yiddish Culture

MINI DV

Shauly Melamed, Israel, 2022, 75 min

Home videos recorded with teenage friends, years later, reveal things we once completely overlooked. Reviewing his own tapes archive led director Shauly Melamed to seek out other individuals from the LGBTQ+ community who, during adolescence, were also fascinated by the camera possibilities. He used the amusing, and sometimes getting today into embarrassment films as a pretext for discussions about discovering one's own identity and reminiscing about complicated family relations. Shauly's companions in this journey to the past include, among oth ... read more

24.10, Tuesday | 19:00 | KinoGram

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