Films A-Z
256,000 MILES FROM HOME
Melissa Hacker, USA, 2025, 15 min
In the months leading up to World War II, approximately 10.000 Jewish children were evacuated from the Third Reich to Great Britain as part of the Kindertransport operation. Four of those former child refugees - now aged 83 to 91 - are embarking on a two-week journey, tracing the route they took many decades earlier. Back then, they left their parents, homes, and everything they had known, unaware that their escape was saving their lives. One of them was the director's mother.
08.11, Saturday | 14:00 | Muzeum POLIN
ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS (FILM SCREENING + DISCUSSION: “THE POWER OF TESTIMONY”)
Guillaume Ribot, France, 2025, 94 min
A hypnotic and immediately gripping tribute to Claude Lanzmann, the creator of Shoah, and his titanic effort. Guillaume Ribot delved into 220 hours of unused film footage left by Lanzmann after 11 years of shooting his monumental work. The narration is given entirely to the director himself - it consists solely of excerpts from his diaries and interviews. We witness Lanzmann's struggles, torn by doubts and uncertain where this work will lead him; his efforts to secure funding to continue the film; and the "behind the scenes" of its creation, in ... read more
08.11, Saturday | 17:00 | Muzeum POLIN
AWARD CEREMONY AND PREMIERE OF “SABBATH QUEEN”
Sandi Simcha DuBowski, USA, 2024, 101 min
POLISH PREMIERE AND MEETING WITH SPECIAL GUESTS FROM SABBATH QUEEN FILM!
21 years in the making, Sandi DuBowski's epic documentary Sabbath Queen follows Amichai Lau-Lavie’s journey from radical drag queen to influential Rabbi of a God-optional, artist-driven New York synagogue.
Only life can write such scenarios. Amichai Lau-Lavie is the heir to 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis, including Chief Rabbis of Israel. At the same time, he became a queer rebel and the founder of Lab/Shul - an artistic and religious community open to ... read more
09.11, Sunday | 19:00 | Muzeum POLIN
BAD SHABBOS
Daniel Robbins, Zack Weiner, USA, 2024, 84 min
A cracking comedy straight from Manhattan. David's parents invite the parents of his fiancée, Meg, for a Shabbat dinner. It will be their first meeting, and to complicate matters, the guests are Catholics, not Jews, so everyone must really try hard to avoid gaffes and awkwardness. But with a little goodwill from both sides, can anything really go wrong? The answer is obvious, yet the screenwriters still manage to surprise with a cascade of improper gags and plot twists, which naturally must include the unexpected appearance of a corpse that ne ... read more
04.11, Tuesday | 20:30 | KINO LUNA
BIRTHPLACE
Paweł Łoziński, Poland, 1992, 47 min
The film is screened on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Jan Tomasz Gross's "Neighbors" – a symbolic moment in the process of reflection on the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews living alongside them.
The year is 1992. Paweł Łoziński and Henryk Grynberg set out to follow the traces of life during the Holocaust. They talk to Polish neighbors who present varying attitudes toward Jews, toward their interviewers, and toward the search being conducted. Some are full of empathy, others show undisguised hostility. These are ... read more
06.11, Thursday | 18:00 | KINO LUNA
BOLLER STREET
Cuyler Ballenger, USA, 2025, 14 min
Boller Street is a fictionalized autobiography tracing the journey of my fifth great-grandmother, Yetta Ballenberg, the only member of her family to leave the German village of Jebenhausen for the United States in the early 19th century. The film blends camcorder footage with speculative narration to reflect on absence and fragmentation in Ashkenazi Jewish memory. Inspired by works such as Shoah, Occupied City, and Summer in Baden-Baden, it shifts from archival tone to personal voice, merging present observation with familial research. Boller Street becomes a meditation on time, diaspora, and the labor required to reconstruct a history scattered by distance and erasure.
09.11, Sunday | 14:30 | Muzeum POLIN
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