Film

Poignant footage showing life of Jewish community just before start of WWII is turned into full-length documentary

Originally a travel souvenir, the three-minute film taken by the American David Kurtz in 1938 is one of the only moving picture records of a typical Jewish town in Poland on the brink of catastrophe. TIFF Trailers/YouTube

VIDEO: Originally a travel souvenir, the three-minute film taken by the American David Kurtz in 1938 is one of the only moving picture records of a typical Jewish town in Poland on the brink of catastrophe. Now filmmaker Bianca Stigter has ‘stretched’ the film into a 70-minute documentary entitled Three Minutes: A Lengthening.

Fascinating tale of Muslim princess who fought for Poland during WWII wins short film award

VIDEO: Directed by Tomasz Popakuł for the Gdynia Emigration Museum and entitled ‘Dzennet’, the six and a half minute film tells the story of refugee Dzennet Dżabagi-Skibniewska, whose mother was a Polish Tatar and father the son of the last ruler of Ingushetia, a republic of Russia located in the North Caucus.

New biopic 30 years in the making to reveal ‘unknown life’ of controversial 1970s politician Edward Gierek

Film producer Janusz Heatcliff Iwanowski spent three decades collecting material for the film, including the account of a banker who lent money to Eastern Bloc countries, the story of a secretary who observed the Gierek era from the inside, and the memoirs of an advisor who helped Gierek change and modernise the Polish economy.

Powerful new documentary reveals untold horrors of WWII atrocities in Warsaw suburb

VIDEO: Using previously unheard witness testimony and Bundesarchiv documents, the documentary entitled North of Hell (with English subtitles) reveals many of the atrocities were carried out by a German field gendarmerie unit under the command of Karl Liebscher, a sadistic captain who was responsible for as many as several thousand murders of Poles and Jews in Białołęka.

Life of ‘hero biologist’ Rudolf Weigl who invented typhus vaccine and saved Jews during WWII to be retold in timely new film

Entitled To Conquer Typhus, the film’s producer Bogdan Miszczak said: “When I started looking for information on Dr Weigl, I came to the conclusion that we could not have thought of a better hero.”

Captivating colourised film reveals how Warsaw looked in 1915

VIDEO: Coloured using a pioneering technique, the six-minute film titled simply ‘Warsaw 1915 In Colour’ is a stunning work that captures both the excitement and trepidation that greeted the early stages of the First World War.

Incredible story of Holocaust Survival Band told in powerful new documentary

Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz are not typical men. In 2014, approaching their tenth decade, they took the age-defying decision to set up a Klezmer ensemble so they could “sing for the 6 million who died” and spread a message of peace and love.

Untold story of WWII hero who committed suicide to draw attention to Holocaust is turned into dramatic new film

VIDEO: The new film Śmierć Zygielbojma (The Death of Zygielbojm) released this week tells the story of an investigation by a British journalist into the life of Szmul Zygielbojm and his attempts to expose Nazi Germany’s war crimes.

Polish filmmakers win awards at Lepizig festival

A Polish cinematographer has won an award in the Best Long Documentary or Animated Film category of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, while another Polish filmmaker won a prize in the Best Documentary Short Film category.

Gripping new documentary reveals high drama world of kite surfing

VIDEO: The team from Woodpecker Motion Pictures takes the viewer along an adrenaline-pumping ride as it followers riders from Poland and around the world across the water and snow as they take flight one gust of wind at a time.

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