Archive 2018
Kichka: Life is a Cartoon
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WARSAW PREMIERE Michel Kichka (born 1954 in Liège) is a renowned cartoonist and illustrator living in Jerusalem. In his graphic novel Second Generation, he addresses the impact the traumatization of his father, Holocaust survivor Henri Kichka (born 1926 in Brussels), had on him and his siblings. The publication forms the beginning of a long journey […]
17.11, Saturday | 18:15 | POLIN Museum
Make peace
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POLISH PREMIERE A portrait of a man who never give up.. Marilyne Canto wanted “to have news from the peace between Israelis and Palestinians, even if those news are not that good, even if pessimism dominates”. More than twenty years after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1995), she chose to follow Ofer […]
18.11, Sunday | 12:00 | POLIN Museum (Screening room A)
On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi
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POLISH PREMIERE Roman (Popi) and Ruth (Nani) Blank are Holocaust survivors, who have been married for 65 years, but at age 95, Roman reveals a secret to his family that tests their seemingly invincible union – Roman is gay and Ruth has been aware for the majority of their married lives. This film chronicles their […]
16.11, Friday | 21:00 | PRAHA Cinema
PUYA – In the Circle of Time (Puya – Im Kreis der Zeit)
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POLISH PREMIERE Puya, a German-Iranian who has lived in Germany for nearly thirty years, is trying with difficulty to make it as a filmmaker – so far to no avail. The way to a feature length film is far. So he makes his way as a wedding videographer and occasional actor. One day he encounters […]
14.11, Wednesday | 19:00 | PRAHA Cinema
Red Cow (Para Aduma)
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POLISH PREMIERE Benny is different than everyone around her. She’s a girl with a boy’s name, An only child, who lost her mother at child birth. She grew up alone with her fundamentalist father in a Jewish settlement stuck in the heart of the Muslim east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. At 17 she finds herself […]
16.11, Friday | 21:00 | PRAHA Cinema
RONIT ELKABETZ: Once Upon a Time … Gett. The Last Interview with Ronit Elkabetz
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A behind-the-scenes look at an Israeli cinematic masterpiece becomes a memorial to an iconic actress and filmmaker. Ronit Elkabetz died in April 2016 at age 51, after battling cancer. Her magnetic onscreen presence–intense performances and striking looks–were matched by her successes as a director and screenwriter. Her life ended just as her career peaked in […]
17.11, Saturday | 12:00 | POLIN Museum
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