In-Person Q&A w/Director Yoav Potash, executive producer Anita Friedman, and associate producer Aaron Tartakovsky after the 8pm show on Wednesday October 29!
8 Above’s newest documentary is the award-winning, stunningly beautiful and incredibly powerful documentary AMONG NEIGHBORS. I am blown away by the story of how a community can be torn apart by war and the lingering threat to the peace that existed for centuries between neighbors. But it is also one of the most hopeful and emotionally satisfying story.
Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, AMONG NEIGHBORS examines the story of a small rural town where Jews and Polish Catholics lived side by side for centuries before World War II. The film brings the Polish response to the Holocaust to life through the last living eyewitnesses, revealing both love and betrayal as it zeroes in on the only living Holocaust Survivor from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there—not by Nazis but by her own Polish neighbors.
The Jerusalem Post - "a powerful reckoning"
Times of Israel - "The documentary... shows that there are still stories to be unveiled even 80 years after World War II — tales of violence and murder, as well as of unlikely miracles and survival."
MSN/The Jerusalem Post - "a fascinating new documentary"
About the filmmaker
Yoav Potash is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. He produced and directed the Sundance premiere documentary “Crime After Crime,” a New York Times Critics’ Pick and winner of 25 honors, including a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award, and six audience awards. The documentary, now available on Amazon Prime, helped spark movements to change domestic violence law in multiple US states. Yoav also directed the “Food Stamped,” winner of SF IndieFest’s Jury Prize, and he recently produced and directed the short film “A Great Big Secret,” which screened at Lincoln Center as one of only two short films in the 2025 New York Jewish Film Festival.
USC Shoah Foundation Partnership
The USC Shoah Foundation is supporting the release of “Among Neighbors” through an official partnership with the film distribution team. The Shoah Foundation will host special sneak peek screenings of the film in Los Angeles and Washington DC (where the Foundation has offices) and will promote the film through its extensive network, social media accounts, and robust mailing list. Founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, the Shoah Foundation is a world-class institute committed to bringing Holocaust survivors’ voices into research, policy, education, and public awareness.