Program
Where are you going? (Lean At Nosaat?)
Jasmine Kainy, Israel, 2023, 71 min
Halina Birenbaum, Holocaust survivor and world known author, is joined (half-heartedly) for the first time by her son, Yakov Gilad, a famous Israeli songwriter, on her annual journey to Poland. Halina Birenbaum, Holocaust survivor, writer and activist, visits Poland every year. This time she is joined (half-heartedly) for the first time by her son, Yakov Gilad, a famous Israeli songwriter. During the tour Yakov finally has the opportunity to better understand the lifelong trauma haunting his mother. He also makes new discoveries about the Jewis ... read more
26.10, Thursday | 20:00 | KINO MURANÓW
WHERE LIFE BEGINS (ALLA VITA / TU CHOISRAS LA VIE)
Stéphane Freiss, Italy, France, 2022, 99 min
An ultra-orthodox Jewish family from Aix-les-Bains comes to a farm in Calabria for a brief stay every year to carry out a sacred mission: harvesting citrons. Here Elio, the farm owner, meets Esther, the rabbi’s daughter, who is tired of the constraints imposed by her religion. Through this relationship, Esther will understand the importance of freedom and find her path, and, in the same way, Elio will find the peace he had lost for a long time. A beautiful, lyrical movie that will take us from the autumn chill and gloom to the sun-kissed landscapes of the Italian countryside.
28.10, Saturday | 16:30 | Muzeum POLIN
WJFF SHORTS PROGRAM: To Everything There Is A Season
multiply, Israel, Germany, Poland, UK, France, 2020-2022, 103 min
WJFF SHORTS PROGRAM: “To Everything There Is A Season And A Time To Every Purpose”. Separation, transition and return are integral parts of our lives. There are moments and events that we carry with us as long as we are alive. Childhood, love relationships, offsprings and death are entangled in religions, traditions and restrictions. Etel must depart from her childhood when she gets her period for the first time in the age of nine (Women of Virtue). When Omri was 13, on the way to his Bar Mitzvah, something happened that would change his fa ... read more
19.11, Saturday | 16:00 | Muzeum POLIN
WJFF SHORTS: “Thou shalt not be indifferent”
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
WJFF SHORTS: „POLIN G9”
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!
28.10, Saturday | 16:30 | Muzeum POLIN
WJFF SHORTS: DOCUMENTARY
Sean Weinstein, Ondine Novarese, Ido Weisman, Itzhak Fuchs, Ryoya Terao, Israel, France, Canada, USA, 2022-2022, 100 min
Selection of 5 shorts documentaries, which are taking part in the competition for the BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY.
THE PROGRAM INCLUDES FOLLOWING FILMS:
DEMON BOX, dir. Sean Weinstein, Canada, 2023, 14 min
RADIADIO, dir. Ondine Novarese, France, 2022, 20 min
13 DRIVER'S LICENSES, dir. Ryoya Terao, USA, 2022, 27 min
REQUIEM FOR A WHALE, dir. Ido Weisman, Israel, 2022, 14 min
WHATSAPP, GARIN GILBOA?, dir. Itzhak Fuchs, Israel, 2022, 26 min
26.10, Thursday | 18:00 | Centrum Kultury Jidysz / Center for Yiddish Culture
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