MY FATHER’S CASTLE (Le château de mon père)  

Partner of the screening: Institut français de Pologne

dir. Filip Flatau, France, 2023, 52 min

POLISH PREMIERE. Krzysztof, 82, is obsessed with the idea of leaving Paris and moving to Poznan - the city where he spent his early years. His son, who is accompanying him with a camera, tries to understand his motivation.

It's the story of a Jewish child who grows up under the German occupation, without a father and without knowing who he really is. It's the story of a lonely teenage boy who, after his Catholic First Communion, learns from an anonymous letter that he is Jewish. It's the story of a man who one day decides to flee communist Poland. Now, half a century later, Krzysztof is obsessed with the idea of moving back to the family house in Poznan, which he has been painstakingly renovating. But first has to convince his painter wife, also a Holocaust survivor, and his son Philippe, a native Frenchman, to leave Paris. As the story progresses, it becomes clear that the plan of moving to Poland is nebulous at best. To force some sort of decision, Philippe decides to travel with his father to Poznań for a month, immersing himself in the world of Krzysztof’s memories.

Q&A with the filmmaker!



PARTNER OF THE SCREENING: Institut français de Pologne


09-11-2024 16:00, Muzeum POLIN


Language: French   Subtitles: Polish


PARTNER OF THE SCREENING: Institut français de Pologne. Q&A with the filmmaker!

, Array

Filip Flatau

2023

52

Array

,

 

1

https://www.bilety.polin.pl/rezerwacja/nienumerowane.html?id=161672&idt=5f45a70da1e0a26f6b4c2985f4647535

News

Partners and sponsors