NYJFF 09 Screening of "Kredens" with "Stumbling Stone" January 28, 2009

New York Premiere
"Kredens"
Jacob Dammas | Poland/Denmark | 2007 | 26m

Somewhere in Warsaw, Poland, a 150-kilogram German-made credenza holds in its sturdy cupboards the 80-year-old history of Jacob Dammas’s Polish-Jewish family. They left the heirloom behind when forced to leave Poland in 1968. Dammas defies his mother’s wishes and follows the credenza’s trail in this humorous and beautifully rendered wild goose chase.

screening with:

U.S. Premiere
"Stumbling Stone"
Dörte Franke | Germany | 2007 | 75m

With his project Stolpersteine, German conceptual artist Gunter Demnig has made it his ongoing mission to create one of the largest Holocaust memorial projects in Europe. Images of the fabrication and placement of engraved, brass-capped cobblestones in front of the last-known residences of Jews, Roma and other victims of the Nazis are interwoven with interviews with enthusiasts and critics of the project throughout this captivating bio-doc road movie.

Wed Jan 28: 4:15 and 8:30pm