Archive 2021
The War, The Cow and Me / SHORTS WJFF: SURVIVAL STORIES
Anabel Münstermann, Germany, 2020, 29 min
In 1941, eleven-year-old Eva and her family are deported from Prague to Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz. She survives both concentration camps. Despite continuous violence and bullying by the SS, Eva manages to find a few glimpses of happiness during the years in Theresienstadt's ghetto. After the evacuation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, she escapes the death march only by a miraculous coincidence. Although Eva loses everything and she is the only member of her family to survive, she does not give up. Happy coincidences shape her l ... read more
18.11, Thursday | 20:30 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
Towards the light – Section “SHORTS WJFF: AN INTIMATE POLISH STORIES”
Beata Hyży-Czołpińska, Poland, 2020, 27 min
Joanna, brought up by her grandmother as an Orthodox Christian, graduated at London university and came back to the small Polish town where she was born. Knowing it would be an “intellectual desert” she was at the same time driven by desire to search for the truth. She has been studying the history of the borderland, her hometown and the people who had lived there. Her life is a struggle. She couldn’t hold on to employment at the local school or the community center. Volunteering for work with the youths she lives between the two worlds. The present one, where she still looks for her own identity, and the bygone, erased world of Krynki’s Jewish past.
15.11, Monday | 20:30 | Ninateka.pl
WET DOG / Ein Nasser Hund
Damir Lukacevic, GERMANY, 2021, 103 min
The 16-year-old Iranian Soheil moves to a largely Muslim neighborhood in Berlin. He quickly befriends young Turks, Kurds and Arabs from the local gang and falls in love with the Turkish girl Selma. But Soheil has a secret: he’s not a Muslim, but an Iranian Jew. Based on a provocative autobiography "A Wet Dog is Better than a Dry Jew" (an anti-Semitic Iranian saying) and developed with young, non-professional actors, the movie tells a story of a teenager caught between hiding his Jewish identity and saving his life.
18.11, Thursday | 20:15 | Kino HELIOS Blue City
What You’re Going Through / SHORTS WJFF: FOCUS ON ISRAEL
Binyamin Haneman, Israel, 2020, 20 min
Benny Haneman the director takes up his camera to explore the love, sadness, jealousy and loyalty that exists between him, his father and his older brother Gidi, who has a complex combination of special needs. For the first time, Haneman comes face to face with the fact that it is his childhood perception of his brother that informs their relationship today. Using his camera and a rich variety of archival footage shot by his father since Gidi’s birth, he creates a safe space in which the father and two brothers can eloquently and intelligentl ... read more
16.11, Tuesday | 20:15 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
You Had To Be There
Avi Merkado, Yaron Niski, Israel, 2020, 54 min
You Had to Be There is a brilliantly thoughtful film that weaves together conversations with Holocaust survivors who talk about the importance of laughter and the use of humor during the Holocaust as a coping mechanism. Through interviews conducted by Israeli comedian Tal Friedman, we discover that even in the most horrible conditions imaginable, people found strength in humor and laughter. Provocative and deeply heartfelt, You Had to Be There will leave you laughing and appreciating the importance of humor even in the face of events that make you want to cry.
15.11, Monday | 20:00 | VOD.Warszawa.pl
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