SPECIAL EVENTS

TREASURE

2024/ 112 min / color

German director Julia von Heinz bases her film on a true story described in Lily Brett’s best-selling autobiographical novel. It caught the eye of Lena Dunham, the star of Girls — she not only performs in one of the two main roles, but also serves as the film’s producer. She plays music journalist Ruth, who, shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain, travels from New York to Poland alongside her father (played by acclaimed British actor Stephen Fry). He’s following his Jewish roots: as a Holocaust survivor, the journey is a return, many years later, to the places he chose to leave after World War II. The emotional and moving journey leads them through Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow to the place with which Edek’s most painful memories are connected – the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The two characters are guided through a country that’s rising from its ashes by a charming cab driver (Zbigniew Zamachowski), and a succession of people they meet along the way help them fulfill the plan the elderly man has crafted for his journey. Treasure is a story about a search for identity and family ties; it’s an attempt to come to terms with the past as well as the titular treasure — with a touch of warm-hearted humor.