Lebanon, dir. Samuel Maoz, 2009

French-Lebanese-Israeli-German war drama. The year is 1982. Young, inexperienced soldiers, shut up inside the claustrophobic interior of a tank, find themselves at the front of the First Lebanon War. Drawing on his own experience, the director shows them balancing on the verge of death, morality and instinct, learning the unexpectedly high price of patriotism.

Lebanon won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival

Polish subtitles.

Tickets – 5 PLN, 15 PLN combined ticket.

Rites of Passage. A review of films about coming of age.

The films included in this selection seem at first glance to have nothing in common: their subject matter, genre, country and date of production all differ. Yet all address the issue of maturing, as related to the embracement of one’s Jewish identity – maturing with history in the background, in both the individual and the collective dimension, freely or by force.

The review accompanies the seminar Do we mature and when? in the Believe in the Museum? series.

Within the framework of the cycle we will show:

November 6, 7 pm – Świadectwo urodzenia (Birth Certificate), dir. S. Różewicz, 1961

November 20, 7 pm – Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass), dir. Wojciech Has, 1973

November 27, 7 pm – A Serious Man, dir. Ethan and Joel Coen, 2009

Supported by Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland