„The Space of An Image" is the largest and oldest Jewish film program in Krakow. Its eleventh edition will take place June 25-29, 2025. This project is co-created by the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Camera of David Foundation - the organizer of the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (WJFF). Our cooperation began on January 21, 2015 with a screening of the film directed by Simon Target, "Brzostek". This film received a Special Award of WJFF 2014 sponsored by Polish Television. It is a unique picture showing the story of British professor Jonathan Webber, who returns to the town of his ancestors and, together with the Poles living there, rebuilds and reconsecrates the Jewish cemetery. This is a deeply symbolic film that shows, as if through a lens, the mission of the Camera of David Foundation and the Galicia Jewish Museum, which together for 11 years during the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow have been showing Krakow audiences engaged cinema and the most important "Jewish" productions of the past year selected by the WJFF selectors.

This year we are entering our second decade with our project. We will celebrate this success by inviting our viewers and audiences to have a deeper presence in the Jewish space of Kazimierz by increasing the number of screening locations. This year's "The Space of An Image" expands and enters into a dialogue not only with the film image, but also with the topography, history and anthropology of the city - "Urban Space" - precisely. We invite you to all the screenings!

ADMISSION IS FREE. FREE TICKETS TO BE PICKED UP AT JEWISH MUSEUM GALICIA. NUMBER OF SEATS LIMITED.

PROGRAM OF "THE SPACE OF AN IMAGE”: 

WEDNESDAY, 25.06.2025, place of the show: Courtyard of the Museum of Engineering and Technology, 15 Wawrzyniec St., Krakow

21.45 Inauguration of the XI Review of Jewish-themed films "The Space of An Image". Outdoor screening of the film: "Seven Blessings", directed by Ayelet Menahemi, Israel, 2023, 111 min. Languages: HEB, ARB, FR, subtitles: PL, EN.

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THURSDAY, 26.06.2025, screening venue: BARAKAH Theater, Paulinska 28, Krakow

18.30 "Treasure", dir. by Julia von Heinz, Germany, France, Poland, USA, 2024, 112 min. Languages: EN, PL, subtitles: EN, EN.

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THURSDAY, 26.06.2025, screening venue: BARAKAH Theater, Paulinska 28, Krakow

20.30 "Stella. A Life", directed by Kilian Riedhof, Germany, Austria, 2023, 120 min. Languages: GER, EN, subtitles: PL, EN.

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FRIDAY, 27.06.2025, screening venue: HEVRE, 18 Meiselsa St., Krakow

18.30 "Jews By Choice", dir. by Justyna Gawełko, Tomer Slutzky, Poland, Israel, USA, 2024, 77 min. Languages: CZE, EN, HEB, subtitles: PL, EN.

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FRIDAY, 27.06.2025, screening venue: HEVRE, 18 Meiselsa St., Krakow

20.30 "My Father's Castle", dir. by Filip Flatau, France, 2023, 52 min. Languages: FR, PL, subtitles: PL, EN.

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SATURDAY, 28.06.2025, place of the show: Galicia Jewish Museum, 18 Dajwór St., Krakow

18.30 "The Return From the Other Planet", dir. by Assaf Lapid, Israel, Germany, 2023, 81 min. Language: HEB, subtitles: PL, EN.

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"AMONG NEIGHBORS” the winner of WJFF 2025 will be shown at the Closing Gala of the 11th "The Space of An IMAGE” in KRAKOW. 

SUNDAY, 29.06.2025, screening venue: Kino pod Baranami, Rynek Główny 27, Krakow, g. 15.00 "Among Neighbors", dir. Yoav Potash, executive producer Anita Friedman, USA / Poland 2024, 103 min. Languages: EN, PL, subtitles: EN, EN.

On June 29th at 15.00  at Kino pod Baranami during the Closing Gala of the 11th "The Space of An Image” will take place the Krakow premiere of "Among Neighbors". After the screening, Jacek Stawiski, director of the Galicia Jewish Museum, will host a conversation with the special guest of the screening, the film producer Dr. Anita Friedman. 

"Among Neighbors", directed by Yoav Potash, is a moving portrayal of Polish-Jewish relations shown on the example of the town of Gniewoszów, located in Mazovia between Kozienice and Deblin. Produced by the Koret Foundation under the direction of its president Dr. Anita Friedman, the film shows a secret hidden for decades, the burden of testimony, murders and heroes saving lives. It is an ambiguous, extremely complex picture, in which java and historical truth meet with dreams and the meanderings of human memory. Potash received the Special Award of the David Camera Foundation funded by Polish Television for this film. The world premiere of "Among Neighbors" took place at the 22nd Warsaw Jewish Film Festival at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Its special guests were Dr. Anita Friedman, the late Marian Turski and Yoav Potash. 

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 — not by Nazis, but by her own Polish neighbors.

Today, all signs of Jewish life in the small town of Gniewoszów have vanished — even the Jewish tombstones disappeared, having been stolen from the destroyed cemetery. Now, a lifetime after the Holocaust, award-winning American filmmaker Yoav Potash ("Crime After Crime," Sundance Film Festival) unearths the deepest mysteries of this town, revealing both the love and the hatred that local Poles felt for their Jewish neighbors. The town's oldest residents, in the twilight of their days, divulge secrets held their entire lives, and their stories come to life in stunning animated scenes, accented by artful touches of magical realism. Ultimately, their collective, heartfelt account lays bare the manner in which ordinary Polish townsfolk made life and death choices about their Jewish neighbors, with decisions that reflect both the very best and the very worst of human nature. As this history is now questioned and whitewashed in favor of a more "patriotic" and politically popular narrative, "Among Neighbors" shows how true patriotism means embracing the truth, no matter how painful it may be.

FREE ADMISSION - FREE TICKETS TO BE PICKED UP AT JEWISH MUSEUM GALICIA. NUMBER OF SEATS LIMITED.

SEE YOU IN KRAKOW AT THE 11th "The SPACE OF AN IMAGE” SCREENINGS!