Archive 2021
Kollegen / SHORTS WJFF: TOUCHING THE INTANGIBLE
Jannis Alexander Kiefer, Germany, 2020, 14 min
In their daily routine the two craftspeople Uli and Didi work in their workshop and reflect on old teachers and the upcoming Village fair but also on the new guests in the village. These guests have given them an unusual commission: To build parts of a concentration camp on German soil - in 2020. In search of recognition for their work, they do not compromise themselves and do their best to meet the demands of their clients, an international film production company. The company is shooting a historical film in the neighborhood and the village i ... read more
21.11, Sunday | 18:00 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
Leonie, Actress and Spy
Annette Apon, Netherlands, 2020, 54 min
Leonie Brandt (1901-1978) dreamed of becoming an actress. After realising her dream she took on the role of her life: she became a spy for the Dutch intelligence service in Nazi Germany. After the war a number of prominent Dutchmen also feared Leonie for what she knew about their actions during the occupation. The film more or less follows the chronology of her astonishing life via scenes from old movies. Shrouded in a haze of mystery the ‘real’ or ‘fictional’ of her life is not always clear.
17.11, Wednesday | 20:30 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
LOVE STORY – SHORTS WJFF: AN INTIMATE STORIES FROM POLAND
Rafał Bryll, POLSKA, 2021, 38 min
The love story of a Jewish girl and a Pole during the World War II. Romantic moments, the hell of war and chilling events. Bogdan Jastrzębski - Righteous Among the Nations, returns to the times of the War, when he fell in love with the only one, the Jewish girl - Krystyna Geisler, for his whole life. First-dates, shy kisses, the drama of the Jews in the Częstochowa ghetto and a daring rescue action on the streets of Częstochowa, under the watchful eye of the Germans, which was the only way to save the life of the beloved woman. And then they lived happily ever after.
This film is a combination of a classic documentary and a hand-drawn animation. Animation by Łukasz Rusinek.
15.11, Monday | 20:30 | Ninateka.pl
Memories of the Eichmann Trial – EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YAD VASHEM
David Perlov, Israel, 1979, 66 min
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
On 11 April 1961, a trial of Adolf Eichmann began at the District Court in Jerusalem. The defendant was a high-profile functionary of the Nazi police apparatus during World War Two, actively engaged in coordinating the process of the extermination of Jews. The Israeli authorities turned the Eichmann trial into a trial over the Holocaust.
The Eichmann trial was a watershed moment shaping Israeli identity and world’s memory of Holocaust. 60 years afte ... read more
21.11, Sunday | 14:00 | Muzeum POLIN
My first wedding in Leggings / SHORTS WJFF: FOCUS ON ISRAEL
Avigail Graetz , Israel, 2021, 10 min
It's the Corona days and Naomi Efrat, a Reform Rabbinical student, is invited to officiate a zoom wedding while she is "vacationing /quarantining" in her brothers hostel in the far south of Israel with her family and reflects on her life.
The film will be shown as part of the program SHORTS WJFF: FOCUS ON ISRAEL, together with:
What You're Going Through, dir. Binyamin Haneman, Izrael 2020, 20',
Requiem For a Fish, dir. Gadi Rimer, Izrael 2021, 33'
16.11, Tuesday | 20:15 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
NEIGHBOURS (NACHBARN)
Mano Khalil, Switzerland / France , 2021, 124 min
In its uplifting humanism and funny moments, Mano Khalil’s film elicits superb performances from its cast, with some drawn from refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. The quiet dignity of the villagers in the face of oppressive tyranny and corrupt Syrian government officials and Turkish border guards is especially wonderfully portrayed.
Growing up in a Kurdish village in north-eastern Syria in the 1980s, Sero is about to enter the first grade. The teacher is determined to instil Ba’ath Arab nationalism and suppress any feelings of Ku ... read more
15.11, Monday | 19:30 | Muzeum POLIN
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