“I am H I Jew positive!” Jurek, a Polish student, has just discovered that he is Jewish and describes his feelings about his newly discovered identity. Almost every day, Poles raised as Catholics discover that their parents have hidden their true identity and that they are originally of Jewish origin and thus belong to the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors. The film begins 14 years ago and accompanies three people from the moment they discover their new identity and follows their lives in a country where the Jewish faith still has to contend with prejudice.
AT/ISR, 2013, 80/52 MIN
Credits
Director & concept Ronit Kertsner
Producers Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jürgen Karasek, Ronit Kertsner
Awards / Festivals
World Premiere Jerusalem Film Festival 2014
European PremiereKrakow International Film Festival 2014
Temple Beth El 2019, USA
The Spiro Ark 2016, USA
Highland Park Temple 2015, USA
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw 2014, Poland
United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston 2014, USA
Zagreb Jewish Film Festival 2014, Croatia
Australia Jewish Film Festival 2014, Australia
Funding
Yesdocu Israel