Aftermath

Aftermath (Pokłosie, 2012) is a Polish mystery drama by Władysław Pasikowski you can watch online on iFILM — the story of a village that buried its own crime and kept it buried for half a century.

Józef Kalina stayed behind to farm the family land while his brother Franciszek built a life in Chicago. Coming home, Franciszek finds the neighbors hate his brother. The reason: Józef has been collecting discarded Jewish gravestones and laying them out in rows across his field. The harder the two pull at that thread, the clearer it gets that the whole community rests on silence about what happened here under German occupation — and naming the guilty means accusing the fathers of everyone still living in the village.

The film draws on the 1941 Jedwabne massacre and split Poland on release, with lead actor Maciej Stuhr hounded for taking the role. A harsh, divisive, necessary picture about how far a person will go to avoid admitting guilt. Stream Aftermath (2012) online on iFILM.