Mikołaj Grynberg

Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.

During the renovation of a tenement house in Lublin in 2010, workers came across a wall that was not included in the building plans. In a hiding place behind it, they discovered a collection of photographs taken on glass. The collection contains over 2,700 glass negatives depicting people who lived in Lublin almost 100 years ago.

The film is an attempt to show the specificity of being a Polish Jew, often incomprehensible to people outside this circle. The history of Poland is exceptionally difficult. It was full of events that had a huge impact on the sense of identity among the Jewish community.