Films A – Z

Filip

Michał Kwieciński, Polska, 2022, 125 min

Frankfurt 1943. The titular character, Filip, is a typical cosmopolitan and a seducer incapable of deeper feelings. In Poland, he lost his entire family. Being in Nazi Germany, he hides his Jewish origins and often escapes death. He works as a waiter in a restaurant of an exclusive hotel, carelessly enjoying all the luxuries of life surrounded by beauty, women, and friends from all over Europe. However, when the war begins pick up bloody harvest among those close to him, the intricately built world around him crumbles like a house of cards. Soon, allied bombers will wipe this bustling Tower of Babel off the earth. The film was made based on a screenplay inspired by Leopold Tyrmand's novel of the same title.

27.10, Friday | 20:15 | KinoGram

GENIUS LOCI. PINKUS/PANUSZ

HaKoach, Poland, 2023, 50 min

WARSAW PREMIERE! The Pinkus tenement house gives rise to Kościuszki Avenue - the central thoroughfare of downtown Łódź. Before the war, the owners and residents looked out of its windows at the Reform Synagogue opposite. This is one of the many memories of Henryk Panusz, the grandson of Mendel Pinkus - the builder of the largest 19th-century tenement house in Łódź, a retired professor of molecular biology and a social worker. "Genius Loci" is a story about how great dreams and achievements are intertwined with the inexorable reality of t ... read more

29.10, Sunday | 13:00 | JCC Warszawa / JCC Warsaw

GOLDA – OPENING FILM

Guy Nattiv, UK, USA, Israel, 2023, 100 min

POLISH PREMIERE, OPENING NIGHT FILM Faced with the potential of Israel's complete destruction, Prime Minister Golda Meir must navigate overwhelming odds, as millions of lives hang in the balance during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel’s holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan began a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting of her all-male cab ... read more

23.10, Monday | 19:00 | Muzeum POLIN

Housewitz

Oeke Hoogendijk, Holland, 2022, 71 min

Lous, the mother of filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk, hasn’t left the house for decades. She has a recurring nightmare in which she doesn’t know how to get home, just like the day when as a Jewish girl she was deported. Scenes which at first sight seem very ordinary—an elderly woman in a living room watching television with her cat—gradually develop into the troubling portrait of an astute woman who has to live each day with the Holocaust as her housemate. Even the Christmas tree, which makes her as happy as a child, still reminds her of th ... read more

24.10, Tuesday | 20:00 | KINO MURANÓW

KARAOKE

Moshe Rosenthal, Israel, 2022, 100 min

A new playboy neighbour causes a great commotion in an apartment building in a Tel Aviv suburb. Enchanted residents succumb to the magic of his karaoke set, but it's a well-known fact that appearances can be deceptive!
Meir and Tova lead a quiet life in a posh apartment building. But after years of marriage, they are deeply bored with each other. The unbearable monotony of their existence is shattered by a new neighbour. Itsik, a modeling agent, comes from the glitzy world far far away. With his arrival, miracles start to happen: the nightli ... read more

26.10, Thursday | 18:00 | KINO MURANÓW

Kidnapped / La conversione / Rapito

Marco Bellocchio, Italy, France, Germany, 2023, 125 min

WARSAW PREMIERE. In this gripping historical drama, legend of Italian cinema Marco Bellocchio looks back at a case that began in 1858, when six-year-old Edgardo Mortaro was forcibly removed from his Jewish family on the basis of the Catholic authorities’ claim that he had been secretly baptized as an infant and must therefore be raised as a Catholic. Papal law is unrelenting, and despite the protests of the Jewish community, the boy is taken to Rome, where he is given a Catholic education. This story of a family divided becomes intertwined with the process of Italian unification, the rebellions against the rule of Pope Pius IX, and the Church’s desperate attempts to hold on to its unlimited power.

28.10, Saturday | 19:00 | Muzeum POLIN

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