Special screenings & events

Leon Prudovsky, Israel, Poland, Columbia, 2022, 96 min

Colombia, 1960. Marek Polsky (David Hayman), a lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor, lives in a remote Colombian village. He spends his days playing chess and taking care of his beloved rose bushes. One day, when a mysterious elderly German (Udo Kier) moves into the house next door, Polsky begins to suspect that his new neighbor is none other than... Adolf Hitler. Since no one believes him, he starts his own investigation. However, to gather information, he will have to get closer to his neighbour than he would like - so close that the two might almost become friends. If only one didn't suspect the other of crimes against humanity.

25.10, Wednesday | 20:00 | KinoGram

Hershey Felder, USA, 2023, 95 min

The Assembly, a film written and directed by Hershey Felder and filmed in Poland, was inspired by the work of Holocaust survivor Eva Libitzky, who lost all of her family in the Holocaust during World War II. For the last 40 years of her life, Libitzky made it her mission to tell her harrowing life story at hundreds of school assemblies to ensure the young people of America never forget what happened in Europe 80 years ago. Libitzky passed away at 97 in 2021, but this new film featuring these eight students will carry on her legacy.
AFTER THE SCREENING Q&A WITH HERSHEY FELDER AND MOSES LIBITZKY - EVA'S SON.

29.10, Sunday | 16:15 | Muzeum POLIN

Alexandre Dayet, Eli Rudovsky, Poland, USA , 2020, 2023, 52 min

LARISSA, dir. Alexandre Dayet, Poland 2020, 43 min
At the end of 1942, 10-year-old Larissa escapes from the Warsaw Ghetto by climbing a ladder... On the "Aryan" side, she is taken and will be protected by a Polish family. A 16-year-old Helena looks after Larissa and treats her like a younger sister. A few weeks later, Larissa has to leave the flat. The girl and Helena will be apart from now. Seventy years after these events, Larissa, living in Paris, feels the need to go to Poland and encounter Helena.

RUNAWAY, dir. Eli Rudovsky, ... read more

29.10, Sunday | 16:30 | Muzeum POLIN

Katarzyna Pajzderska, Jakub Duszyński, Tama Tobias Macht, Samy Waitzberg, Jacob Dammas, Poland, Germany, Brazil, Denmark, 2020-2023, 33 min

WORLD PREMIERE!
5 short films depicting how the protagonists maintain the bond between the past and the present in different ways. The films are produced as part of the POLIN Museum's international competition for "an image of contemporary Jewish life in various corners of the world".

The program includes following titles:
“Cheesecake”, dir. Katarzyna Pajzderska, Poland 2020, 8 min
“Family Portret”, dir. Jakub Duszyński, Poland, 2022, 7 min
“Jankel's Shtetl ”, dir. Tama Tobias Macht, Germany 2021, 7 min
“Sarita”, dir. Samy Waitzberg, Brazil 2021, 7 min
“Warsaw Calling”, dir. Jacob Dammas, Denmark 2023, 7 min
AFTER THE SCREENING MEETING WITH FILMMAKERS!