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All About the Levkoviches
Adam Breier, Hungary, 2024, 85 min
WARSAW PREMIERE. After his wife's death, the stubborn Hungarian boxing coach agrees with his estranged Jewish orthodox son to let him mourn in his house. During the seven day long shiva Tamás and Iván are faced with their old grievances. Although the big-hearted but stubborn boxing coach Tamás (70) has a kind word for everyone, he and his son, Iván (35), an Orthodox Jew living in Israel, refuse to talk to each other for years. Their relationship has deteriorated to the point where Tamás has never even met his own grandson, Ari ... read more
10.11, Sunday | 14:00 | Muzeum POLIN
AMONG NEIGHBORS
Director: Yoav Potash. Executive Producer: Anita Friedman. Directors of Animation: Marcin Podolec, José Garnelo, USA, Poland, 2024, 103 min
WORLD PREMIERE. CLOSING GALA. Q&A WITH PRODUCER/DIRECTOR YOAV POTASH, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ANITA FRIEDMAN, AND INDIVIDUALS FROM THE FILM. Combining evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, "Among Neighbors" examines Jewish-Polish relations through the story of Gniewoszów, a small, rural town where Jews and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries. At its core, the film zeroes in on the last living Holocaust survivor from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there — n ... read more
10.11, Sunday | 19:00 | Muzeum POLIN
Cinema Sabaya
Orit Fouks Rotem, Israel, 2021, 91 min
Israel's entry to the 2023 Oscars, JERUSALEM FF 2021 - THE BEST DEBUT, JERUSALEM FF 2021-AUDIENCE AWARD, 5 AWARDS OF ISRAELI FILM ACADEMY OPHIR 2022: THE BEST ISRAELI FILM 2022
Nine women, Arab and Jewish, take part in a video workshop hosted by Rona, a young film director, who teaches them how to document their lives. With each raw homemade footage shot by the women and shared with the others, the group dynamic forces them to challenge their views and beliefs as they get to know each other and themselves better.
18.11, Friday | 20:00 | KinoGram
Concerned Citizen
Idan Haguel, Israel, 2022, 82 min
WARSAW PREMIERE
Ben thinks of himself as a liberal and enlightened gay man, living in the perfect flat with his boyfriend Raz. All that’s missing to complete the picture is a baby, which the couple are trying to make a reality. Meanwhile, Ben decides to improve his up-and-coming neighborhood in gritty south Tel Aviv by planting a new tree on his street. But his good deed soon triggers a sequence of events that leads to the brutal police arrest of an Eritrean immigrant. The guilt trip that ensues will fundamentally challenge Ben’s vision of himself and his society, in the process threatening to destroy his relationship
16.11, Wednesday | 18:00 | KinoGram
CUSTARYANS / Bewariërs
Sanne Kortooms, Timon Moll, Netherlands, 2023, 70 min
POLISH PREMIERE. In the 70-minute documentary CUSTARYANS, three stories are told about Jewish possessions stored during the Second World War, their Jewish owners and their non-Jewish protectors. All this against the background of the post-war period, which was not just one of reconstruction and togetherness. Rising anti-Semitism, excessive bureaucracy that made restoration of human rights impossible, focusing solely on the heroic deeds of the fallen and not on the suffering of the Jewish community... These were the ingredients of a social climate that made it impossible for many Jews to build a life in the Netherlands after the Second World War. A gap in the collective memory of the Dutch, which has not yet been filled more than 75 years later.
08.11, Friday | 20:00 | KINO MURANÓW
Edge of Light
Wojciech Szumowski, Poland, 2021, 73 min
WARSAW PREMIERE
The movie shows us the story of Dariusz Popiela, Polish sportsman who, together with a group of young people, does not agree that the Nazi intention to remove Jews from world history would be fulfilled and conducts works in old, forgotten Jewish cemeteries. By recovering old matzevot Popiela brings back memory of Shoah victims. Each name recovered from the stones helps to show victims as individual people instead of a nameless group. THE FILM IS A STORY ABOUT READING – from matzevot, documents, the memory of neighbo ... read more
15.11, Tuesday | 18:00 | KinoGram
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