Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival - "Aftermath"

Written and Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski |
Poland/Netherlands/Russia/Slovakia | 2013 | 107 minutes | Polish with
subtitles | Drama

An ordinary village. A dark secret. A man
returns to Poland after many years abroad, alarmed by the news that his
younger brother has come into conflict with his village neighbors. As
the two brothers struggle to rebuild their relationship, they are drawn
into a gothic tale of intrigue, uncovering a dark secret that forces
them to confront the history of their family and their hometown.

Writer-director
Pasikowski uses the true story of what happened in the Polish town of
Jedwabne, an incident revealed in historian Jan Gross' equally
controversial 2001 book "Neighbors," as the inspiration for a fictional
drama.

"One of the most effective of Aftermath's notions is to
make the investigators not the classic righteous Gentiles of so many
Holocaust movies but angry, dissatisfied, antisocial, even borderline
anti-Semitic individuals drawn into a quest for the truth almost against
their will." LA Times

Jerusalem Film Festival 2013 Yad Vashem Chairman's Award

The
14th annual Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival, a program of the
Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, runs March 20-30. Most
films will be shown at Angelika Film Center & Café at Mosaic.

Get tickets HERE