BIRTHPLACE 
dir. Paweł Łoziński, Poland, 1992, 47 min
The film is screened on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Jan Tomasz Gross's "Neighbors" – a symbolic moment in the process of reflection on the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews living alongside them.
The year is 1992. Paweł Łoziński and Henryk Grynberg set out to follow the traces of life during the Holocaust. They talk to Polish neighbors who present varying attitudes toward Jews, toward their interviewers, and toward the search being conducted. Some are full of empathy, others show undisguised hostility. These are eyewitnesses and even participants in dramatic events. The calm tone of the adult son, who wants to learn the fate of his father, constantly contrasts with the stifling, dense atmosphere. The mechanism of social control that governs small rural communities holds in check the impulses of conscience and the desire to help. Łoziński and Grynberg travel across Mazovia, visiting Radoszyna, Dobre, Jadów...
After the screening, Anna Bikont will lead a discussion on working with witnesses and participants in the murders of Jews committed in small communities. The screening is presented as part of the special WJFF project, "Decades. 1945-2013."
06-11-2025 18:00, KINO LUNA
Language: polish Subtitles: english
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