Jewish Silent Film Festival will be held at Kino Engel. Live music for Saturday’s screenings will be performed by Helsinki Klezmer Kapelye. Program: Saturday, 7 November14.00 Varieté (1925), 104 min, directed by E. A. Dupont. A visually striking and psychologically intense portrayal of desire, betrayal and destruction.16.00 Ost und West (1923), 91 min, directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson. The film explores the differences between American and Eastern European Jewish life, as well as questions of identity and modernisation. It is one of the earliest and most significant Yiddish-language silent films.18.00 Die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess, 1919), 58 min, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A farce about American super-rich and European aristocrats. Sunday, 8 November14.00 Mir kumen on (We Are Coming, 1936), 131 min. Directed by Aleksander Ford, this Yiddish-language documentary portrays the everyday lives of poor Jewish children in 1930s Warsaw and their journey to the Vladimir Medem sanatorium for tuberculosis patients in Miedzeszyn. The film is one of the few surviving visual documents of Jewish life in Poland before the war. Kino Engel7.-8.11.2026Tickets 20€, age recommendation 16+
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