Torn
Canadian Premiere
COUNTRY: ISRAEL
YEAR: 2011
AUDIO: Hebrew, Polish, English, French
RUNNING TIME: 72 MIN
DIRECTOR: Ronit Kertsner
May 10 - 1:00PM Bloor
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What does it mean to be Jewish? Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel's parents were Jewish. In order to save his life during the Nazi occupation of Poland, his mother gave him up to a Polish gentile family when he was still an infant. He joined a seminary at the age of 18. When he was 35 he discovered that he had been born a Jew. At the age of 67, he felt compelled to live in Israel, and obtain a better understanding of his Jewish roots. Torn gives us insight into his unrelenting search for where he belongs.
Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel's was a guest speaker of the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada in Toronto in 2007.
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My Australia
Canadian Premiere
COUNTRY: ISRAEL / POLAND
YEAR: 2011
AUDIO: Hebrew, Polish
RUNNING TIME: 100 MIN
DIRECTOR: Ami Drozd
May 7 - 6:00PM Bloor
May 9 - 8:00PM Sheppard
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A touching drama based on the filmmaker's own experiences. Set in the 1960s, ten-year old Tadek and his older brother Andrzej live in a working class neighbourhood in Poland where they are part of a gang with neo-Nazi affiliations. After being arrested for beating up Jews, their mother confesses to them that she is a Holocaust survivor who has kept their Jewish origins secret. Aware that she must remove her sons from their toxic environment, she tells them that they will be moving to Australia, when in fact, their destination is Israel. Questions of identity and loyalty are explored upon their arrival in this foreign land.
Guest: Director, Ami Drozd
Sponsored by:
Eileen & Shoel Silver
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- The Official Film Trailer
- Rex Reed for New York Observer
- Daphne Merkin for Tablet
- Ewa Stachniak for Cosmopolitan Review
- Larry Rohter for New York Times
- Sheldon Kirshner for The Canadian Jewish News
- Ofer Aderet for Haaretz
- Reed Johnson for Jerusalem Post
- Kanada:"W ciemności"Agnieszki Holland wchodzi do kin. (Polish)
- "W ciemności" - Zwiastun (Polish Trailer)
February 17, 2012
Canadian Press marks release of "In Darkness"
- Globe and Mail:
Agnieszka Holland: "I was trying to show the complexity of the human condition"
A haven in the sewers in war-time Poland
- The Toronto Star:
In Darkness review: A subterranean Schindler's List
Critic's choice: Feb. 16 to 22
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National Post:
Underground cinema
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Toronto Sun:
'Darkness' filmmaker in the spotlight
- Now:
Interview: Agnieszka Holland
- Montreal Gazette:
From Lvov sewers to Oscar stage -
Gazeta (in Polish):
Światło w ciemności
Yael Bartana: ...And Europe Will Be Stunned
Art Gallery of Ontario
17 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G4
January 25 to April 1, 2012
After winning the Artes Mundi prize for "work that stimulates thinking about the human condition" in 2010, Israeli filmmaker and artist Yael Bartana presented her latest project at the 2011 Venice Biennale - the first non-Polish artist to represent Poland at the major international art exhibition ...And Europe Will Be Stunned, her film trilogy made between 2007 and 2011, will be on view for the first time in Canada in the AGO's Lind Gallery from Jan. 25 to April 1, 2012