Archive 2023
13 DRIVER’S LICENSES
Ryoya Terao, USA, 2022, 27 min
The discovery of thirteen confiscated driver’s licenses from 1938 leads a small German town to face a horrendous past. A group of high school students with their tenacious teacher research the fates of the town's former Jewish citizens. A year later some of the Jewish descendants visit “their hometown”.
26.10, Thursday | 18:00 | Centrum Kultury Jidysz / Center for Yiddish Culture
CASTLES IN THE SKY
Roland Manookian, USA, 2022, 15 min
Living in a cloistered Hasidic milieu in Brooklyn, Malke is a Holocaust survivor and a beloved sex-ed teacher who has never been able to have children of her own. However, Malke has secretly been slamming poetry in New York's Lower East Side for the last three decades, defying all communal norms and laws. One day her transgressive pursuits are discovered by one of her bridal students. Is Malke willing to risk it all for her poetry? The film includes live readings from poets such as Venus Thrash, Julia Kasdorf, and Everton Sylvester as well as featuring poetry by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub and Esther Hoffman.
25.10, Wednesday | 18:00 | Centrum Kultury Jidysz / Center for Yiddish Culture
CHILDREN OF PEACE
Maayan Szwartz, Israel, 2022, 67 min
Story of the children who were brought up in a utopian social experiment where Palestinians and Israelis chose to live together in co-existence. "Oasis of peace" explores what remains of that dream today.
Arabs and Jews have lived in ongoing conflict for over a century. A group of dreamers decided to challenge everything they know about their nationalities and histories and founded Neve Shalom - Oasis of Peace - a village in 1970s Israel designed as a social experiment. The film follows the many children who were brought up in this unique e ... read more
25.10, Wednesday | 18:00 | KINO MURANÓW
CUT
Samuel Lucas Allen, Australia, 2023, 19 min
Daniel, a teenage boy caught in a thickening web of lies, is pulled in different directions by his buddy, burgeoning anti-Semite, James, his secret lover, Isaac, and his orthodox Jewish father, Adam. As his ability to juggle his identities falters, he finds himself haunted by a Hasidic spectre demanding a sacrifice.
25.10, Wednesday | 18:00 | Centrum Kultury Jidysz / Center for Yiddish Culture
Delegation (Ha-Mislahat) – CLOSING NIGHT
Asaf Saban, Poland, Israel, Germany, 2023, 99 min
WARSAW PREMIERE. CLOSING FILM! Being a teenager isn't easy. Being a teenager from Israel can be even more challenging, especially when one is on a trip aimed at encountering tragic history. On the edge of adulthood - Nitzan, Frisch, and Ido - travel with their peers to a country where the mass extermination of Jews took place in Nazi concentration camps, aiming to pay due tribute of remembrance to the victims of these crimes. This journey alters them fundamentally, highlighting how enormous historical tragedies and the minor dramas of daily life can interrelate with each other. Meeting with filmmaker Asaf Saban and Polish producer KOI STUDIO!
29.10, Sunday | 19:00 | Muzeum POLIN
DEMON BOX
Sean Weinstein, Canada, 2023, 14 min
Intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide and the Holocaust. Wrapped in a deceptive meta-genre package, this witty documentary/narrative hybrid explores the generational impact of ultimate experiences.
26.10, Thursday | 18:00 | Centrum Kultury Jidysz / Center for Yiddish Culture
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