Jakubowksa’s horrific semi-autobiographical story of being taken prisoner at Auschwitz. As she and the other prisoners await for the Red Army to free them, we get a glimpse of the reduced circumstances the women of Auschwitz had to live with, and the maltreatment they received even from personnel who were prisoners themselves. After Jakubowska’s release she returned to the concentration camps to shoot the film. It’s said that the thought of documenting her time at Auschwitz was one of the main things that helped her get through the experience. Such a personal recollection of the atrocities has never before nor since been captured on film.
Featuring an introduction from Kieron Corless
Here Jakubowska looks at the Holocaust once more, but from the perspective of Polish slave labourers made to work in a German man’s factory. There is a great sense of community that arises from the group over their shared experience...
The story of a journalist who travels to Silesia in search of an author of guidebooks whom he admires. What he finds when he arrives is a house full of weird and wonderful residents, who each seem to live in their own fantastical...
In this full-length documentary, Koszałka takes a look at the people who work at a funeral parlour at Kędzierzyn-Koźle and a body incineration centre in Czech Ostrava. The film shows what actually happens to human bodies after death,...
