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Tali sets out on her journey to Lodz with her Polish-German lover Magda. Their roadmap consists of bits and pieces of old information about street names, homes and tombstones related to Tali's grandmother, a Holocaust survivor from Lodz. Grandma’s home in the ghetto, the streets of her youth: are they still there? Can Tali and Magda find them? How would it feel to discover an old house, knowing so many stories about its past?
My Two Polish Loves explores these themes through Tali’s journey with her lover Magda. Two women from different worlds. In their intimacy and openness they begin discovering similarities in their lives that had initially been indiscernible. Such is their connection to their Polish heritage. This intimate space stretches from their romantic relationship to Tali’s grandmother’s past and back to the present again. It encompasses all the questions that have arisen for Tali since her grandmother’s death and since falling in love with Magda: Will future generations be at all interested in the history of the Holocaust if there are no longer any living witnesses? How important are the physical memories, the names, the homes and the graves for our rapidly changing society? What is the role of the so-called third generation, the grandchildren of those who survived or witnessed the Holocaust?How does our past inform our complex and conflicting histories and identities, or who we are today? The film asks these questions in an honest, authentic and often humorous way.
This is an unusual documentary and an artistic discussion of how the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors deal with emotional memory. How can the third generation keep alive the memories of their deceased grandparents? Is there still a place forthese fading memoriesin our rapidly changing world?
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tali tiller
Director
An independent filmmaker. Born in Israel, living and working in Berlin since 2012. From 2007 to 2012 produced biographical documentaries, telling the stories of Holocaust survivors, Jews who came to Israel from different regions, and people who took part in the establishment of Israel in its early years, building cities and kibbutzim.
magda wystub
Director of Photography
A documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. Her debut film Yes We Are (2011), the first documentary focusing exclusively on the situation of lesbians in Poland premiered in the Official Competition at Crossing Europe Film Festival 2011 in Linz / Austria and won the Best Documentary Award 2012 at the Queere migrantische Filmtage in Vienna / Austria.
Susanne Dzeik
Camerawoman
Over 15 years of experience as a documentary filmmaker and as a camerawoman. Worked as a camerawoman for the film Nach dem Brand,which was nominated for Prix Europa 2012. Among her previous works:Muevete(1999), Mate(2004), Von Mauern und Favelas(2005). Her current documentary project is entitled "Cloud Making Machine."
Almut Wetzstein
Camerawoman
Among her previous works: director and camerawoman of Kumbia Queers: More louder bitte!(2013), director's assistant: Wer bist du, dass du sprichst?(2006). Current works: camerawoman and sound engineer for "Activists of Berlin Feminist Movement from 1970s to 1990s" (2015-2018); Co-director, camerawoman and sound engineer: "German for Newcomers" (2016); Director, camerawoman and sound engineer: "Kapitalismustribunal" (2016-2017).
Evelyn Rack
Editor
Evelyn Rack is a Berlin-based film editor and video artist. Editing more then twenty films since 2004, she is best known today for her work on the multiple award-winning Chaja & Mimi(2009), as well as Rotation(2013) and Oblivio(2014). Her video installations have been screened in several European countries.
5/10/2019
Film screening in NYC // At Colombia University's Queer Awareness Month
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22/09/2019
Film screening in NYC // At Lesbian Herstory Archives
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10/01/2019
Film screening in Göttingen // At Kino Lumiere
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10/11/2018
Film screening in Jüdische Filmtage in Fürth // At Kino Babylon
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30/10/2018
Film screening in Haale (Saale) // At Kino Zazie
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05/10/2018
Film screening in Münster // At Salon féministe goes Freitagskino
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04/10/2018
Film screening in Hannover // At Sprengel Kino
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03/10/2018
Film screening in Hamburg // At Zentrale Bibliothek Frauenforschung, Gender & Queer Studies
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09/09/2018
Film screening in Lüneburg // At Scala Kino
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29/06/2018
Film screening in Halle // At Q. Kju_Point
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5/06/2018
Film screening in Israel, TLV // At TLVfest
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1/06/2018 + 4/06/2018
Film screening in Israel // At Kibutz Mizra
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1/06/2018
Film screening in Berlin // At Raumerweiterungshalle
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16/05/2018
Film screening in Kölln // In Kino Turistaarama
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10/05/2018
Film screening in Berlin // At Zielona Góra
At 19:00
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2/05/2018
Film screening in Tel Aviv, Isarel // At Tel Aviv cinematheque
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27/04/2018
Film screening in Hiafa, Isarel // At Haifa cinematheque
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5/04/2018
Film screening in Berlin // At Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
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25/01/2018
Film screening in Frankfurt am mein // At Pupille Kino
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10/01/2018
Film screening in Berlin // At Lichtblick Kino with Q&A
More screenings at Lichtblick Kino:
Do 11.1. 17:00 Uhr
Mo 15.1. 17:15 Uhr
Di 16.1. 17:00 Uhr
Mi 17.1. 17:00 Uhr
Mo 29.1. 17:00 Uhr
Di 30.1. 17:00 Uhr
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3/12/2017
Film screening in Berlin // At B-lage
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27/11/2017
Film screening in Warsaw // At the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
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15/10/2017
Film screening in Krakow // At the Jewish community center of Krakow
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14/10/2017
Film screening in Poznan //at the ZAMEK Culture Centre
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13/10/2017
Film screening in Warsaw //Hosted by Lambda organization at cafe PoWoli
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9/10/2017
Film screening in Berlin //at the diy festival 'queer feminist takeover'
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6/9/2017
Film screening in Dortmund //at the queer feminist csd Dortmund
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28/8/2017
Film screening in Lodz // commemoration of the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto and Great Szpera
At: Centrum Dialogu Lodz, 18:00.
1/7/2017
Berlin premiere of My two polish loves:
The Screening starts at 16:00 and afterwards there will be a Q+A
At: FSK Kino at Oranienplatz (https://fsk-kino.peripherfilm.de/kontakt-impressum/)