Archive 2021
Once Upon A Time in Israel / SHORTS WJFF: TOUCHING THE INTANGIBLE
Weronika Szyma, Poland, 2021, 11 min
An animated documentary in the form of a travel journal. A girl while being in love with a Palestinian boy goes to Israel for the first time. Her simplified vision of the world and a desire to take sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is quickly confronted with the reality of living on the border of Sderot and the Gaza Strip.
The movie is part of the program SHORTS WJFF: TOUCHING THE INTANGIBLE
It can be visible on the surface of the skin, hidden in the accent or rooted in the back of your mind. Between politically c ... read more
21.11, Sunday | 18:00 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
Paradise / SHORTS WJFF: TOUCHING THE INTANGIBLE
Asaf Saban, Israel, 2021, 33 min
After years living in Berlin, Ali, a young Palestinian, lands in Israel for a home visit. Following a very cold welcome at the airport, Ali decides to seek some peace and quiet on a short vacation in the desert of Sinai, Egypt. Between the local Bedouins, a group of young Israeli Jews mistake him for one of them. With the breathtaking beaches of the Sinai desert in the background, Ali is forced to reflect on his identity and a sense of belonging, before he will have to deal with the harsh return to the country he has left behind.
Th ... read more
21.11, Sunday | 18:00 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
PLAN A
Doron Paz, Yoav Paz, GERMANY, 2021, 110 min
Based on a true story. In 1945, a group of Jewish holocaust survivors planned to poison the water system in Germany, killing back millions of people, “one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans“.
Time for revenge: shortly after the end of the war a group of Shoah survivors (Haganah) hatches a plan to poison the drinking water in German cities. Max (August Diehl), whose entire family was murdered in the concentration camps, encounters support within the group. For the Haganah however, the construction of what will later become t ... read more
20.11, Saturday | 17:15 | Muzeum POLIN
Please Behave / SHORTS WJFF: TOUCHING THE INTANGIBLE
Maor Zaguri, Israel, 2020, 29 min
Tikva Gideon, winner of 2020 Big Brother Israel, leaves the Big Brother house and returns to the outside world to celebrate her victory, money, and fame. But this is not the world she had previously known. There is no audience waiting for her outside, the taxi driver will not shake her hand, won’t roll up the window, and explains to her why at this time when the world is dealing with a pandemic, Tikva is the last thing on anyone’s mind.
The movie is part of the program SHORTS WJFF: TOUCHING THE INTANGIBLE
It can be vi ... read more
21.11, Sunday | 18:00 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
PORTRAYAL
Billie Mintz, CANADA, 2020, 96 min
Dark family secret from the past induces 24-year old Canadian to travel to Europe and Israel to expose art fraud on a huge scale and to restore his late grandfather’s legacy as a keen amateur painter. But as his journey unfolds Roman realizes that his search for truth, justice and vengeance may not lead to the salvation and healing he had hoped to achieve.
Since he was a child Roman Lapshin has been haunted by a secret his late grandfather revealed to him when he was only 12 years old. A personal disclosure regarding the myster ... read more
21.11, Sunday | 14:00 | Muzeum POLIN
POWDER KEG / KRUDTTØNDEN
Ole Christian Madsen, Denmark, 2020, 106 min
On Valentine's Day 2015, one month after bloody attacks in Paris, tranquil Copenhagen lived through its own hours of dread. Based on true events, the Danish thriller follows the intertwined fate of four men: a burned-out SWAT officer, increasingly radicalized and recently released criminal, a filmmaker fighting for free-speech and a Jewish security guard. In one of the leading roles Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, known as Jaime Lannister from “Game of Thrones”.
17.11, Wednesday | 20:15 | Kino HELIOS Blue City
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