Returning - film by Joanna Helander and Bo Persson

We invite you to the screening of the documentary Returning which was awarded at the 30th International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. Film is directed by Joanna Helander and Bo Persson. The event accompanies the finalization of the exhibition Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks. The show will take place in the "Ravens Hall" room. Free entrance.

In the film Returning, Joanna Helander travels around Poland and Germany, and struggling with the passage of time, tries to discover what happened to her Jewish relatives who went missing during the war. During these journeys, she maintains an uninterrupted, imaginary dialogue with his deceased father - Gerhard K. His voice leads her through contemporary Poland and through the apocalyptic world of all who directly or indirectly suffered during the Holocaust. The film's construction of this document is the interplay of image, original music, dialogue and poetic narrative.

Joanna Helander - Polish photographer, documentary film director, writer and translator. In 1968, during Romanist studies at the Jagiellonian University, she was arrested for protesting against the invasion of Warsaw Pact forces in Czechoslovakia. In 1971 she emigrated to Sweden, where she graduated from photography in Gothenburg. She is the author of numerous photographic, film and literary portraits of Polish intellectuals and democratic opposition activists.