Jewish Motifs Film Festival
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8-11 November 2010, Homo Faber Association
19-21 November 2010, the House of Culture "Skarpa"
Homo Faber Association, House of Culture "Skarpa", and the Warsaw Association Jewish Motifs invite to the 7th edition of Lublin Jewish Motifs Film Festival. The festival is dedicated to the Jewish nation, its traditions, national and cultural identity and history. There are also contemporary topics relating to Israel and Jews around the world. Festival in Lublin city which is a candidate for the European Capital of Culture 2016, is placed on the map of Jewish film festivals around the world. Through the films we want to show the cultural diversity, promote tolerance and openness towards other nations and cultures.
In Lublin, the festival will settle for the third time this year and will be in two places: at the Homo Faber Association (8-11 November 2010) and in the House of Culture "Skarpa" (19-21 November 2010). We show a lot of award-winning films from around the world. We will meet with the director the film "Polski Hotel" Kama Veymont. The festival will begin with award-winning film "Po-lin. Slivers of Memory "
All films are in Polish and English.
Admission free
Program at Homo Faber Association 8 -11.11.2010
Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 39
Monday 8.11
4.00 p.m. Special screening: Po – lin. Slivers of Memory
Jolanta Dylewska 82' 2008 Poland / Germany
6.00 p.m. Leaving the Fold
Eric Scott 52' 2008 Canada
7.00 p.m. Divorce Jewish Style
John Edginton 48' 2009 UK
8.00 p.m. Einsatzgruppen - the Death Brigades. Part I: Mass graves
Michaël Prazan 104' 2009 France
Tuesday 9.11
5.00 p.m. George Weidenfeld, Close Up
Stephan Reichenberger 60' 2009 UK / USA / Germany
6.10 p.m. Miracle Lady
Moran Somer & Michal Abulafia 10' 2009 Israel
8 Stories That Didn't Change the World
Ivo Krankowski 34' 2010 Poland
7.00 p.m. Sajmište - the History of the Camp
Marko Popović & Srđan Mitrović 50' 2008 Serbia
8.00 p.m. Guided Tour
Benjamin Freidenberg 25' 2009 Israel
8.40 p.m. Einsatzgruppen - the Death Brigades. Part II: Funeral stakes
Michaël Prazan 91' 2009 France
Wednesday 10.11
3.30 Legends in the Dunes
Yaakov Gross 101' 2009 Israel
17.30 p.m. Polski Hotel
Kama Veymont 49' 2009 Poland
After screening meeting director
19.30 p.m. The Baluty Ghetto
Pavel Ńtingl 88' 2008 Poland / Czech Republic
21.10 p.m. Deadly Honour
Lipika Pelham 58' 2009 Israel / UK
Thursday 11.11
4.00 p.m. Tobruk
Vaclav Marhoul 99' 2008 Czech Republic
6.00 p.m. The Outcasts. Jewish Partisans of Belarus
Alexander Stupnikov 53' 2009 Belarus
7.00 p.m. The Peretzniks
Sławomir Grünberg 93' 2009 Poland / USA
8.40 p.m. An Alien Loyalty
Peter Williams 25' 2008 UK
Gefilte fisz
Shelly Kling 10' 2008 Israel
Program at House of Culture „Skarpa” 19 – 21.11.2010
Przytulna Street 4
Friday 19.11
6.00 p.m. Me and the Jewish Thing
Ulrik Gutkin 43' 2009 Dania
7.00 p.m. Miracle Lady
Moran Somer & Michal Abulafia 10' 2009 Israel
8 Stories That Didn't Change the World
Ivo Krankowski 34' 2010 Poland
Gefilte fisz
Shelly Kling 10' 2008 Israel
8.00 p.m. An Alien Loyalty
Peter Williams 25' 2008 UK
Saturday 20.11
6.00 p.m. Tobruk
Vaclav Marhoul 99' 2008 Czech Republik
8.00 p.m. Guided Tour
Benjamin Freidenberg 25' 2009 Israel
Sunday 21.11
6.00 p.m. Polski Hotel
Kama Veymont 49' 2009 Poland
7.00 p.m. Deadly Honour
Lipika Pelham 58' 2009 Israel / UK
8.10 p.m. The Outcasts. Jewish Partisans of Belarus
Alexander Stupnikov 53' 2009 Belarus
movies description:
Po – lin. Slivers of Memory
Unique archives show the world that no longer exists: the pre-war Poland, where two cultures: Jewish and Polish co-existed in the wall of the wall; cottage next to cottage, the village next to the village. "Po-lin" - means "to stop here" in Yiddish - do not deny the painful zaszłościom. It only shows that next to them was also something more. Worth reminders and - perhaps - the reconstruction.
Leaving the Fold 
Eric Scott 52' 2008 Canada
Leaving the Fold is a film about young people born and raised within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world, who no longer wish to remain on the inside. From the Hasidic enclaves of Montreal, Brooklyn and Jerusalem come stories of conflict, coercion and struggle. Tinged with pain and unexpected humor, Leaving the Fold documents the process of emerging from a strictly controlled society into our chaotic world of endless choices. Once everything was decided for them and now they must decide for themselves
Divorce Jewish Style
John Edginton 48' 2009 Great Britain
In Jewish Law it is the husband who has the right to decide whether he will give his wife a divorce (the “Get”). If he refuses her, the wife may be sentenced to years of living in a dead marriage. She cannot remarry and any child she has from a new relationship is considered illegitimate. In this controversial documentary, “chained wives” from the Orthodox Jewish community in the UK and Israel speak out about their plight – including a woman who has been refused a Get by her husband for 47 years.
Einsatzgruppen - the Death Brigades
Michaël Prazan 195' 2009 France
In June 1941, the German army invades the USSR. Following behind are the Einsatzgruppen, 3000 men grouped into four “intervention groups” each given a designated geographical region, sent to exterminate Jews and enemies of the Reich. Within a few months, the genocide work is accomplished. In December 1941, the Baltic countries are declared “Judenfrei” – free of Jews… Who were these men who organized and carried out the mass assassination of Jews, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners? Where were they from? What were their motivations? What path did they follow after the destruction of Jews and the German debacle?
George Weidenfeld, Close Up
Stephan Reichenberger 60' 2009 Great Britain / USA / Germany
George who? George Weidenfeld, eventually Lord Weidenfeld. Born in 1919, Jewish. Holocaust survivor and German patriot. Austrian. Englishman. A friend of America. Zionist. Womaniser. Opera-lover. One of Britain’s most admired publishers. One of the most influential networkers of international politics. And someone, without whom the birth of the state of Israel and German unification would quite possibly have taken a different course. Weidenfeld’s regular haunt was and is behind the scenes of world history. Until now, TV teams have not been allowed to accompany him there. During trips to London, New York, Tel Aviv, Vienna and Berlin he made an exception for Mathias Döpfner, the Axel Springer Chairman of the Board, friend and companion for more than a decade.
Miracle Lady
Moran Somer & Michal Abulafia 10' 2009 Israel
Fortuna, a 75 years old lady, is sitting in her wedding gown, waiting for her late husband to come back home. Meanwhile, her next-door neighbor’s old servant – Marcela-Merkada – wishes for her miserable life to end. Their two stories intersect and change each woman’s predictable fate.
8 Stories That Didn't Change the World
Ivo Krankowski 34' 2010 Poland
Eight heroes of the film – Polish Jews born between 1914 and 1933 – introduce us to the land of their youth, child dreams and adventures. The story is wound around the earliest memories and events
Sajmište - the History of the Camp
Marko Popović & Srđan Mitrović 50' 2008 Serbia
The camp in Staro sajmište was established by the Nazis in December 1941 on the territory which was then a part of the pro-Fascist puppet state of Independent State of Croatia – NDH. Situated on the left bank of the Sava River, opposite “Old” Belgrade, the Jewish camp in Sajmište – Judenlager Semlin, was one of the first concentration camps in Europe designated for the internment of Jews. From March 1941 until May 1942, about 7.000 Jews, mostly women, children and the elderly, were systematically murdered in a mobile gas chamber delivered from Germany. This is a story about a forgotten place of execution, about a place where thousands of Jews and Serbs were murdered, a place of horrible suffering, death and memories.
Guided Tour
Benjamin Freidenberg 25' 2009 Israel
31-year-old Eitan lives alone in Jerusalem and works during nighttime at painting lines on the streets of the city. The mundane and monotonic work is interweaved with associative moments from the protagonist’s everyday life. He wonders between imagination and reality, clarity and blurriness, on the border between identities, between the broken lines.
Legends in the Dunes
Yaakov Gross 101' 2009 Israel
The film, made on the occasion of 100th anniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv, follows the development of the building of the new city across the ancient city of Yaffo. Its founders, builders and bohemia who settled there, installed a new spirit in the awakening Land of Israel, in times when it was hard to believe the Zionist dream would be fulfilled.
Polski Hotel
Kama Veymont 49' 2009 Poland
The film reveals the background of the mysterious and practically unknown story from the time of the Holocaust, which happened in Warsaw in the summer of 1943, and which – due to its moral ambiguity – was called “the Polski Hotel scandal”. In the city, which, after liquidation of the ghetto, is announced to be “free from Jews”, a kind of “embassy” for Jews is established – with the Gestapo’s consent – where for high amounts of money they may purchase the passports, which can rescue their lives. However, only about 200 Jews survived the Polski Hotel scandal. What happened to the rest of them? Was Polski Hotel a trap?
The Baluty Ghetto
Pavel Ńtingl 88' 2008 Poland / Czech Republic
The film tells the story of Czech Jews deported during the war into the Lodz ghetto in area Baluty today. The most novel feature of this documentary is to show the timelessness of the horrors described by witnesses. Authors by moving it closer in time to which you will use today Baluty character - a fascinating, albeit neglected district of Lodz.
Deadly Honour
Lipika Pelham 58' 2009 Israel / Great Britain
Narrated by a 15-year old girl, Salma, based on a real life survivor of honour killing, Deadly Honour documents multiple murders of young women in the Israeli city of Ramla. Juarish is a dejected neighborhood in Ramla where girls grow up anticipating their turn to face the killers. Through Salma's story the film explores the dynamics of a powerful clan, originally Bedouins from the southern Negev desert, who had been displaced and resettled in the city following the birth of Israel. As well as projecting the fear and trauma of the survivors, the film also looks into the social fabric of the mixed Jewish-Arab city, where women have integrated better in the mainstream Israeli society than men.
Tobruk
Vaclav Marhoul 99' 2008 Czech Republic
A Second World War drama. Libya, Fall 1941. Twenty years old Jiři Pospíchal and his naive ideas about heroism are confronted with the hell of African desert, complicated relationships in his units and the ubiquitous threat of death. All this takes its cruel toll in the shape of gradual loss of self respect and courage. His closest companion is Jan Lieberman, in many ways more mature Jewish soldier, who signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army with him.
The Outcasts. Jewish Partisans of Belarus
Alexander Stupnikov 53' 2009 Belarus
Outcasts is the first film ever on the Jewish partisan units in Belarus. Only in the Minsk region there were seven Jewish fighting units. The total number of Jews - partisans in Belarus amounts to fifteen to thirty thousand. Many of the ghetto uprisings took place in Belarus. The film gives a concrete idea about the conditions under which Jewish partisans came up, and about their relationship with the Belarusian. The phenomenon of Jewish partisans in Belarus is unique not only for this republic, but also for understanding the resistance movement against the background of the European Holocaust.
The Peretzniks
Sławomir Grünberg 93' 2009 Poland / USA
The film presents the story about the students of I. L. Perec Jewish school, which existed in Łódź until 1969. After its closing, the majority of its graduates were forced to leave Poland as a result of the anti-Semitic campaign of March 68. The film tells about the unique relationship between Peretzniks, which they cultivated in the post-war Łódź, and which became even stronger due to the fact that history tried to destroy it. Gołda Tencer is the author of the concept of this film.
An Alien Loyalty
Peter Williams 25' 2008 Great Britain
Hitler’s Nazis drove Jews and dissenters out of Germany in the 1930s. Many thousands came to England and joined the British armed forces to fight against Nazi Germany. This film embraces the wartime experiences of some of the 10,000 Germans and Austrians who fled Nazi persecution. They speak of their welcome in Britain; of the need to anglicise their names in case they were captured by the Germans – and, in one case, of the day one of them captured Lord Haw Haw, the English traitor who broadcasted for Hitler.
Gefilte Fish
Shelly Kling 10' 2008 Israel
Gali’s family has a long-lasting tradition whereby every woman who is engaged to be married has to prepare Gefilte Fish for the wedding party, as a virtue for the success of the marriage. Gali has received from her mother and grandmother a living carp to be cooked. She is torn between the pity she feels toward the fish and the need to abide her family tradition.
Me and the Jewish Thing
Ulrik Gutkin 43' 2009 Danmark
Me and the Jewish Thing is a cheerful and confronting documentary study of the collision of two cultures. The documentary paints an intimate picture of what it means to be a nonreligious Jew in Denmark today. A Danish Jewish man (the director) and a Danish non-Jewish woman (the girlfriend) fall in love. When the girlfriend gives birth to a baby boy they find themselves at the horns of a dilemma; is their son to be circumcised or not? This question sets the director off on a personal quest to learn more about his Jewish identity.
