Film events
The 9th
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
December 1-7
www.jjff.org.il
Presents a
wonderful selection of films and events from Poland
Upon
presentation of this flyer, entrance is 27 NIS instead of 35 NIS
The films, in
order of their screening:
I
AM YOU ARE – LODZ 2007 Sunday December 2 at 17:00, Cinematheque 1
A selection of short films from a filmmaking workshop for Polish
and Israeli youth, summer 2007.
ARTHUR SZYK:
ILLUMINATOR (Dir.: Piotr Zarebski) Tuesday December 4 at 17:00,
Mishkenot Sha'ananim
THE EAGLE
PHARMACY. Tuesday December 4 at 19:00, Mishkenot Sha'ananim
Screening in the presence of director Krzysztof Miklaszewski
TELL ME WHY?
Wednesday December 5 at 21:00, Cinematheque 2
Opening of "Pandora's Box" Program
In the presence of director Malgorzata Imielska
SEVEN JEWS
FROM MY CLASS (Dir.: Marcel Lozinski) Thursday, December 6 at
17:00, Mishkenot Sha'ananim
Panel
discussion: "Pandora's Box: The Image of Jews in Polish Documentary
since 1989"
Participants:
Marek Rozenbaum, Producer & director, Mateusz Werner,
Film Critic, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Piotr M.A. Cywinski,
Historian, director of Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Malgorzata
Imielska, film director, Dr. Daniel Blatman, Historian,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Catalogues can be
picked up at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, and the program is
available on-line at:
www.jjff.org.il
International Film Festival in Haifa
September 27 – October 4
What Sun Has Seen dir. Michał Rosa, 2005,
108 min.
September 27, at 22.00 – Rappaport Hall
September 30, at 09.45 – Rappaport Hall
 The
movie consists of three novels – Josef, Marta and Seba. The heroes
are simple but unusual people, the 50-years-old Josef who is
persistently looking for work, a teenager, Marta, who is exploring
the possibility of leaving for Norway and the 13-years-old Seba who
is seeking the truth about his family.
Jasminum
dir. Jan Jakub Kolski, 2006, 107 min.
September 28, at 21.00 – Panorama 1
October 3, at 11.30 – Panorama 1
 A
mysterious and magic story, full of sensual scents and filled with a
particular light that love spreads around. An unusual monastery is
the site of a visit by a young painting conservator and her
5-year-old daughter, Gienia. The charm and inquisitive mind of the
girl bring a lot turmoil into the until then very peaceful life of
the monks.
Savior’s Square
dir.
Joanna Kos-Krauze i Krzysztof Krauze,
2006, 105 min.
September 29, at 15.30 – Haifa
Cinematheque
September 30, at 12.00 – Panorama 1
 A
young married couple with two children are about to receive the keys
to their own apartment. As they have put all their money into the
apartment and must save, they surrender their independence and move
in with the boy’s mother. Things turn dramatic when it turns out
that the developer went bankrupt.
Hope
dir. Stanisław Mucha, 2006, 105 min.
September 30, at 15.30 – Rappaport Hall
October 2, at 19.00 – Krieger Hall
 The
story of an unusual blackmail. A movie about the theft of a
painting, love and the chance of redemption according to the script
by Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the author of most of Krzysztof
Kieślowskis’s movies.
Still Alive.
A Film about Krzysztof Kieslowski
dir. Maria
Zmarz-Koczanowicz, 2005, 81 min., dokument
September 30, at 12.00 – Tikotin Hall
 A
film portrait of the great director produced on the 10 th
anniversary of the passing of one of the most prominent figures of
Polish movie-making. Comments on the director by among others: Wim
Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Sawomir Idziak, Irene Jacob and Zbigniew
Preisner. The film is richly illustrated by archive materials and
Kieslowski’s documentaries and features.
September 27 – October 4, Haifa
Cinematheque, 142, hanassi Av., tel.: 04-8353520, detailed info:
www.haifaff.co.il
Retrospective of Dorota
Kędzierzawska’s movies in the framework
of the International Women’s Film Festival in Rehovot
September
5 – 8
 Dorota
Kędzierzawska is a distinctive director. While other directors
recurrently take a leaf out of the book of American movie-making,
she is making movies that are subdued, full of pain and reflection
about man’s loneliness. She is using a specific movie language in
that she is very meticulous about each take and very particular with
regard to details of scenography, lighting and colors. Last but not
least, movie imagery is a top priority in her work, a basic form of
communication. In this context one must emphasize the significance
of the person of the operator, Artur Reinhart, whose wonderful takes
tell the stories directed by Kędzierzawska.
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Crows (1994) is the story of a lonely
girl who, deprived of her mother’s tenderness, kidnaps a
girl younger than herself and assumes the role of a mother
as she pictures it. |
Nothing (1998)
tells the story of a young woman who lives in an old rental
house with her indifferent and at times brutal husband and
three children. The woman gets pregnant and tries to hide
it. |
I am (2005) is the story of an
11-year-old who, accidentally, runs away from an orphanage,
no one is looking for him and his mother, with whom he
intended to stay, does not expect him. Consequently, he is
on his own. |
Chen Cinema, Ben Tziyon Blvd., Rehovot
Tickets: tel.: 1-700-500-222, Lotus: 08-9364979, 08-9467890,
detailed information:
www.iwff.net
Polish movies at the 24th Jerusalem Film Festival
July 5 – 14, Jerusalem Cinematheque
Retrieval
- director Sławomir Fabicki, 2006, 109 min.
 A
strong, heart-gripping story about a 19-year-old who is forced to
embrace the forces of evil in his struggle to provide for his
beloved woman and her child.
The movie won an award at the Cannes festival, received a Golden
Globe nomination and was a Polish Oscar candidate. Fabicki has
already received a nomination of the American Film Academy for the
short-reel “Men’s business” (2002) which won the first prize at the
Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv (2002).
One day in People’s Poland – director
Maciej Drygas, 2005, 59 min.
 It
took the author more than one year to collect the documentation for
this movie for the purpose of creating a story about the period that
seems so distant to Poles and yet still so familiar. September
27, 1962. Nothing much happened on this day in the Polish
People’s Republic. A moderately cloudy weather was forecast. More
than 1600 new citizens were born and some 600 died. A day like any
other day – reconstructed with a reporter’s accuracy.
Detailed information:
www.jer-cin.org.il
Jerusalem Cinematheque, 11, Hebron Rd., tel.:
02-5654350
Monday, April 30 at 20:45
Screening of the document BEAUTIFUL STREETS (Piekne ulice) by
Leszek Elenhard
(32 min., Pol., Eng. Sub)
A documentary based on the memories and on the history of the family
of Leszek Elenhard. 900 days of survival in Lvov seen with the eyes
of a child who lives with his mother during the Holocaust period.
The stories of survival are undeniably linked with the streets of
the city of Lvov where Leszek recaptures his childhood.
in the presence of the director Leszek Elenhard
Krzysztof Kieślowski in Cinematheque Tel Aviv
 Friday,
April 20 at 10:00
Cinematheque Tel Aviv, z cyklu Perspectives on great film makers
(in cooperation with Askolot)
Screening of the film BLIND CHANCE by Krzysztof Kieslowski
(Poland, 1982, 101 min. Polish, Heb. sub.) with lecture by Henri
Ungar “Kieslowski – God died, what next?”
Price: 100 NIS - Regular price / 90 NIS – for subscribers
Second screening (without the lecture)
Friday, April 20 at 20:00, price: 33 NIS
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a
seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
One: he catches the train, meets an honest Communist and becomes
himself a Party activist. Two: while running for the train he bumps
into a railway guard, is arrested, brought to trial and sentenced to
do community service in a park where he meets someone from the
opposition. In this case, Witek becomes a militant member of the
opposition. Third version: he simply misses the train, meets a girl
from his studies, resumes his interrupted studies, marries the girl
and leads a peaceful life as a doctor unwilling to get mixed up in
politics. He is sent abroad in the framework of his work. In
mid-air, the plane he is on explodes.
* Tickets available at the counter of the Cinematheque, 2, Sprintzak
St.
Friday, February 2, at 14:00,
the Tel Aviv Cinematheque at 2, Sprintzak St.
On the occasion of the approaching Polish-Israeli Season 2008/9 and
the initiation of the joint movie program „Israel-Poland New Gaze”,
the Cinematheque shall present documentaries produced in the
framework of a similar project – “Russia-Poland New Gaze” – that was
created by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Eureka Media. The
directors Irina Wolkowa and Wojciech Kasperski and the project
authors: curator Mateusz Werner (Adam Mickiewicz Institute) and
producer Krzysztof Kopczynski (Eureka Media) shall attend the
screening.
Review program:
Moscow x 7, directed by Piotr
Stasik
Piotr Stasik's document can be compared to poetry without words. We
are watching seven long takes of Moscow. By no means were the spots
where the camera was set up picked randomly – these are
characteristic, crucial and completely disparate locations in the
capital of Russia. Each takes us ever deeper into the soul of the
city and we discover its reality.
My Kieślowski, directed: Irina Wołkowa
The movie presents the director's subjective view of Poland by means
of Kieslowski's movies. The main theme of the movie is an interview
with Kieslowski's daughter – Marta Hryniak. In the first part of the
movie we shall also see pictures of people who turned up for casting
for the remake of the movie "Coincidence". They will tell about the
role of his creative work in their lives. There will be locations
held dear by Kieslowski
Elektric train, directed by:
Maciej Cuske
Whoever "rode" with Wieniczka Jerofiejev from Moscow to Pietuszki
certainly wondered what it is like to ride a Russian electric train
nowadays. Maciej Cuske's document will certainly provide some of the
answers. A baby making its first steps, a dandy talking on a
cellular phone, a man with a small suitcase and several other
characters offer a cross-section of today's Russian society.
Seeds, directed by: Wojciech Kasperski
In a village surrounded by the Altaj mountain range, a family live
in a solitary hut. The members of the family are ostracised by the
rest of the village community. We learn that the family carry
secrets. The movie is a gripping tale and the viewer is shocked to
realize that he was watching a document. The alluring Russian
surrealism turns out to be reality.
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