Blending exquisite hand-drawn animation with searing first-person testimony, Among Neighbors uncovers the haunting story of a Polish town where centuries of coexistence with its Jewish community collapsed in the shadow of World War II. At its center are two remarkable voices: the town’s last living Holocaust survivor and an elderly eyewitness who recalls a shocking massacre — not under Nazi occupation, but months after its defeat.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime, Sundance Film Festival), this powerful documentary plays like a real-life murder mystery, excavating buried truths of violence, complicity, and silence. In the town of Gniewoszów, where even the tombstones from the Jewish cemetery were stolen, Potash uncovers the erased history of neighbors bound by ties of love, betrayal, and survival.

The town’s oldest residents, now at the end of their lives, break decades of silence, their memories brought to life through stunning animation enriched with touches of magical realism. Their stories reveal the life-and-death choices of ordinary townspeople, exposing both profound acts of courage and devastating acts of cruelty.

As efforts to rewrite history gain momentum, Among Neighbors offers a bold counterpoint—insisting that true patriotism demands an unflinching confrontation with the past, no matter how painful the truths it reveals.