2015 Non - Competition


2015 COMPETITION SCREENINGS
     Program 2015 English
POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 04, WEDNESDAY, 6 PM
Israeli Embassy Film Club

Restoration
Konserwator zabytków
dir. by Yossi Madmoni,
Israel 2011, 102'

70-year-old Yaakov Fidelman (Sasson Gabai from The Band's Visit) doesn’t want to leave the antique restoration workshop where he had worked all his life. After his long-time business partner passes away, Fidelman rejects his son Noah's idea to close the business and build an apartment complex on the site. He believes that with the help of his new apprentice Anton, he'll find a way to save his workshop, his world and solitary life. When Anton falls in love with Hava, Noah's pregnant wife, the two young men must compete not only for a father, but also for a woman. Yaakov needs to make some serious decisions...
Language: Hebrew. Subtitles: English, Polish

The screening is a part of the Israeli Embassy Film Club project

Jerusalem Film Festival 2011 – Best Feature Film – Best Editing – Best Music – Best Cinematography, Karlovy Vary IFF 2011 – Grand-Prix Crystal Globe Award, Sundance FF 2011 –Dramatic Screenwriting Award


POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 05, THURSDAY, 4 PM
Educational screening under the patronage of German television – ZDF

The Outbreak of World War II. The First Victim
II Wojna ¦wiatowa. Pierwsza Ofiara.
dir. by Peter Hartl,
Germany 2014, 50'

People who were children during War World II give their testimony and tell us about the dramatic events of this time. We learn how war irreversibly changed lives of so many people, forcing them to leave their homes and families. The film includes interviews with such people as Roman Polanski, Marian Sobkowiak, Budzimira Wojtalewicz, Niklas Frank and Gustav Hintz.
Language: German. Dubbing: Polish Screening in cooperation with ZDF TV




POLIN Museum, Warsaw: Nov. 08, SUNDAY, 2 PM
Israeli Embassy Film Club

The Matchmaker
Swat
rez. Avi Nesher,
Israel 2010, 112'

Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, starts working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office at the rear of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world of adults... As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni's cousin. Tamara has just returned from America and constantly talks about women's rights, free love and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik's life collide in unexpected, often funny and moving ways. Avi Nesher's film mixes comedy with drama as it tells a coming-of-age story.
Language: Hebrew. Subtitles: English, Polish

The screening is a part of the Israeli Embassy Film Club project

Nominated for 7 Israeli Academy Awards, Silicon Valley JFF 2011 - Audience Award , Israel FF NY 2011 - Silver Plaque Award, Chicago IFF 2010 - Official Selection, Toronto IFF – 2010