Muranów Cinema (Le Muranow de Varsovie) — screening with Roman Gutek

I have always felt that cinema has the power to preserve what memory tries to erase.

Muranów Cinema is a place where this tension becomes visible. Built on the ruins of the former Jewish quarter of Warsaw, it carries layers of memory — absence, destruction and reconstruction. For me, it is not just cinema, but a space where past and present coexist, and images store traces of lives that no longer exist. At the same time, this is where my own story begins. In 1961, my parents met here by chance. Their unexpected meeting became the beginning of my life. This personal thread leads me back to this place, not just to tell his story, but to understand how deeply our lives are shaped by the spaces in which we live.

In this film, I wanted to move between collective history and intimate memory. I work with archival materials — photographs, fragments of films, traces of the past — not as closed documents, but as living images. With gentle movement and sound, I try to bring them back to the present, to make them sound again.

I've given up on classic interviews. Instead, I conduct the narrative in my own voice, transitioning between observation and personal reflection. This creates a space that is both historical and emotional, in which the viewer can experience the film not only as a story, but as a developing memory.

Muranów becomes both a witness and a hero — a place where cinema still speaks, memory lasts, and even the most personal experiences are inextricably linked with history.

Olga Prud'homme Farges