A remarkable movie is opening in San Francisco this weekend that subverts the traditional view of a Holocaust documentary.
Yoav Potash’s “Among Neighbors” is at times more like an absorbing true crime movie as the East Bay filmmaker pieces together the story of Jews who were murdered in a small Polish town six months after the end of World War II — and sheds light on a current wave of antisemitism.
“Holocaust films are often about what the Germans did to the Jews,” Potash told the Chronicle of his film, which opens at the Vogue Theatre on Friday, Oct. 24, screens at the Alamo Drafthouse in Mountain View on Saturday, Oct. 25, and moves to the Lark Theater in Larkspur next week. “This film shifts the focus to the centuries-old relationships between Polish Jews and Polish Catholics side by side for hundreds of years influencing one another in culture and food and language such that you really cannot separate these people of two different faiths in some ways…