2014 Non - Competition


2014 COMPETITION SCREENINGS
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Narrative features

LUNA Cinema, Warsaw: Nov. 6, Thursday, 19:45 - 21:15

ANA ARABIA

dir. by Amos Gitai
Israel, France 2013, 75'

Young journalist Yael visits a small community of Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave at the "border" between Jaffa and Bat Yam, in Israel. She discovers a range of characters far removed from the usual clichés offered by the region. In this dilapidated and fragile place, there is a possibility of coexistence.

Golden Lion Nomination - IFF Venice 2013 - Green Drop Award.


LUNA Cinema, Warsaw: Nov. 9, Sunday, 19:30 - 22:00
The Camera of David Ceremony
Meeting with a director Samuel Maoz

LEBANON
LIBAN
dir. by Samuel Maoz
France, Germany, Israel, Lebanon 2009, 93'

A film by Samuel Maoz, honorary guest of the 12th Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. June 1982, the First Lebanon War. Four young tank soldiers are dispatched on their first mission. What seems to be a simple assignment gradually spins out of control.

Golden Lion 2009


POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 6, Thursday, 21:45 - 23:00

TOTAL ECLIPSE
CAŁKOWITE ZAĆMIENIE
dir. by Samuel Maoz
Israel 2000, 60'

A directorial debut of Samuel Maoz, honorary guest of the 12th Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. A fictionalized documentary with the well-known actress Evgenia Dodina - our 2008 WJFF Jury Chairwoman.




Feature documentaries

LUNA Cinema, Warsaw: Nov. 6, Thursday, 18:00 - 19:30

GARDEN OF EDEN
RAJSKI OGRÓD
dir. by Ran Tal
Israel 2012, 73'

“The Garden of Eden” is the story of Gan HaShlosha, one of the largest, most famous and most visited national parks in Israel. During one full year, the film documents the park’s transformation, and with a spectacular expression of cinematic beauty, it tells the stories of the people who visit the park and work therein.

BEST DIRECTOR - Jerusalem FF 2012


POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 6, Thursday, 15:00 - 17:00
TSKŻ invites. The discussion after the movie.

JAKUB ROTBAUM
JAKUB ROTBAUM
dir. by Artur Hofman
Poland 1993, 53'

In this film, director Jakub Rotbaum (1901-1994) recollects his life and artistic output. Between 1940-1949, Rotbaum was a director in various Jewish theaters, among others in North and South America, as well as in England. In 1949, he returned to Poland and until 1952 was the artistic director of the Jewish Theater in Wroclaw. Rotbaum was a guest director in theaters in, among others, Bucharest, Paris, and Sao Paulo.




JCC, ul. Chmielna 9 A, Warsaw: Nov. 9, Sunday, 15:30
Partners of the event: JCC Warszawa, KUKBUK
Special screening and culinary workshops

MAKE HUMMUS NOT WAR

dir. by Trevor Graham
Australia 2012, 80'

Make Hummus Not War is a humorous journey through the hummus bars and kitchens of Beirut, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and New York. Along the way the director encounters the legend of Middle East cuisine Claudia Roden, zealots, biblical characters, political activists, chickpea farmers, novelists and Sheiks, for whom hummus is a near religious obsession.

San Sebastian FF, Berlinale, Melbourne Int. FF 2012, Transatlantic FF 2013.


POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 4, Tuesday, 17:00 - 18:45
The Patron of the Event:
Museum of the History of Poland, THE YEAR OF KARSKI

MESSENGER FROM POLAND
WYSŁANNIK Z POLSKI
dir. by Raye Farr & Martin Smith
UK 1987, 40'

In this 1980s interview, Jan Karski recollects his attempts to inform the Allies about the ongoing extermination of Jews in occupied Poland. The film was made in a response to Karski’s interview given to Claude Lanzmann.
Jan Karski at the desk, Warsaw, 1935 .r, the footage from the Museum of the History of Poland thanks to Hoover Institution: Archives, California, Register of the Jan Karski Papers, box 25 folder 2




POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 7, Friday, 22:00 - 23:00
Special Screening of the 2014 Honorary Camera of David Laureate Claude Lanzmann

SHOAH THE UNSEEN INTERVIEW
SHOAH: NIEZNANE WYWIADY
dir. by Claude Lanzmann
USA 2011, 55'

Unscreened archival material which was not used in the famous documentary series Shoah. Shocking interviews with the survivors are carried out by Claude Lanzmann.

New York Jewish Film Festival, Austin Jewish Film Festival, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival


POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 4, Tuesday, 19:00 - 20:00
Special Screening of the 2014 Honorary Camera of David Laureate Claude Lanzmann
The Patron of the Event:
Museum of the History of Poland, THE YEAR OF KARSKI

THE KARSKI` REPORT
RAPORT KARSKIEGO
dir. by Claude Lanzmann
France 2010, 48'

The Karski Report consists of passages omitted from the 1985 documentary Shoah. Here, Polish resistance emissary Jan Karski vividly re-creates his meetings with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, in which he described the ongoing extermination of Jews in occupied Poland.
Jan Karski at the desk, Warsaw, 1935 .r, the footage from the Museum of the History of Poland thanks to Hoover Institution: Archives, California, Register of the Jan Karski Papers, box 25 folder 2




JCC, Warsaw, ul. Chmielna 9 A: Listopad 7, Friday, 14:00
Partners: JCC Warszawa, KUKBUK

THE KOSHER DILEMMA
TAJNIKI KOSZERNO¦CI
dir. by Jigal Krant
Holland 2012, 90'

In “The Kosher Dilemma” filmmaker Jigal Krant searches for the secrets, inconsistencies and lessons of the Jewish kitchen. What’s the difference between kosher and non-kosher wine? Why do orthodox Jews only eat white eggs? These are some of the questions Jigal Krant seeks to answer.




Short fiction films and animations

POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 4, Tuesday, 17:00 - 18:45
The Patron of the Event:
Museum of the History of Poland, THE YEAR OF KARSKI

MESSENGER FROM HELL
POSŁANIEC Z PIEKŁA. HISTORIA JANA KARSKIEGO
dir. by Rafael Medoff, Neil Adams
USA 2010, 12', short anim.

The history of the hero of the Polish Underground State interpreted by illustrator Neal Adams - the author of such iconic US comic book series as The X-Men and Batman. Narrated by Polish actor Maciej Stuhr.
Jan Karski at the desk, Warsaw, 1935 .r, the footage from the Museum of the History of Poland thanks to Hoover Institution: Archives, California, Register of the Jan Karski Papers, box 25 folder 2


Short documentaries

POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 6, Thursday, 15:00 - 17:00
TSKŻ invites. The discussion after the movie.

IDA KAMINSKA’S THEATER
JEJ TEATR
dir. by Władysław Forbert
Poland 1967, 19'

A film devoted to a distinguished Polish Jewish actress Ida Kaminska. Kaminska began her stage career in The Jewish Theater in Warsaw, which was funded by her parents. She was the first actress from the Communist bloc nominated for an Academy Award.