Among Neighbors

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Among Neighbors

2025

1h 40m

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Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, "Among Neighbors" examines the story of a small, rural town where Jews and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries before World War II. The film brings the Polish response to the Holocaust to life through the last living eyewitnesses, revealing both love and betrayal as it zeroes in on the only living Holocaust survivor from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there -- not by Nazis, but by her own Polish neighbors. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash ("Crime After Crime", Sundance Film Festival).

Marie Asner

Phantom Tollbooth

May 29, 2026

4/5

Focusing on this town gives the audience a chance to see what happened all through Germany/Poland. Just magnify this throughout that part of the world from 1930 and on.

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Jessica Baxter

Hammer to Nail

May 27, 2026

While it does, at times, feel like a tsunami of information, if you simply let the story wash over you, the heart of the matter floats to the surface.

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Rendy Jones

Film Festival Today

May 18, 2026

4/5

For young people in particular, this film not only highlights accounts of the Holocaust and the difficult reality of Jewish reintegration after the war, but it also illustrates how damaging revisionist history can be.

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

Jan 29, 2026

It is a documentary that plays more like a drama than a passionate academic exercise.

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Oct 31, 2025

4/5

Among Neighbors paints a vivid portrait of courage, memory, and the perils of historical denial.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Oct 30, 2025

t’s a strong piece with particular relevancy at a time when our own leaders appear very interested in burying any unflattering aspects of U.S. history.

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ML

Apr 17, 2026

Loved this documentary because it took on the evils of antisemitism that remain in poland post war and before. It terrified me, which means movie was powerful. Please keep exposing truths like these! Movie is a must see!

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Janet B

Nov 12, 2025

Very well made. Interesting personal account.

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Miriam

Oct 26, 2025

Very well done. Mixture of real time video and animation was great.

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Ed G

Oct 25, 2025

It was exceptional and I loved everything about it

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tiffanie a s

Oct 19, 2025

Such heart in the history. You will be moved.

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Deborah Bee

Oct 19, 2025

Excellent insight into the real history of events during the Holocaust, and immediately thereafter. The real life interviews and photos integrated with drawn sketches, bring what could just be a story are into an emotional reality.

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Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, "Among Neighbors" examines the story of a small, rural town where Jews and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries before World War II. The film brings the Polish response to the Holocaust to life through the last living eyewitnesses, revealing both love and betrayal as it zeroes in on the only living Holocaust survivor from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there -- not by Nazis, but by her own Polish neighbors. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash ("Crime After Crime", Sundance Film Festival).

Director: Yoav Potash
Producer: Yoav Potash
Screenwriter: Yoav Potash
Distributor: 8 Above
Production Co: Headfirst Arts & Media
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 10, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 12, 2026
Runtime: 1h 40m

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