34:00 min, DCP, 2:3
Polish, French, Arabic, Hebrew
Nadir, a Moroccan student at the Łódź Film School in 1968, returns to Poland in 2025 to direct a film drawn from a buried past
with two pivotal figures: Edyta, his Jewish editing teacher and lover deported to Haifa during the 1968 purges, and Jarek, Edyta’s protégé and Nadir’s closest Polish friend.
The film repurposes early student works, once raw exercises, into evidence and spiritual traces, reassembled in Łódź as a fictional accusation against Jarek and projected in Haifa as if summoned by Edyta: a cinematic act of necromancy.
Forgotten Solidarities is a thematically linked companion to Assaf Gruber’s earlier film Miraculous Accident. Not a direct sequel, it offers a different cinematic attempt, returning to the same protagonists.
This time, the editing lens tightens on how cinema, memory, and intimacy operate within systems of power, where they can morph from co-resistance into manipulation or cult.
Actors: Abdelkader Lagtaâ, Marta Ojrzyńska, Mateusz Górski, Marcin Czarnik and Grzegorz Falkowski
Written, directed and edited by Assaf Gruber
Produced by Guillaume Cailleau (Cask Films)
Co-Producer Aleksander Bilnik (Tak Mi Źle Films)
Associate Producer Yusuf Ölmez
Cinematography Simon Veroneg
First Assistant Camera Sky Müller
Sound Recordist Anna Lenarick
Sound Design & Sound Mix Jochen Jezusek
Assistant Director Moriya Matityahu
2nd Assistant Director and Research Assistant Janusz Dąbkiewicz
The film was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Visual Culture Research Center and Ribbon International for the Kyiv Biennial 2025. In co-production with Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol.
The artistic research was commissioned by Berlin Artistic Research Programme.
