Films by Pawel Siczek

Switzerland, Germany 2023, 82 min
by Pawel Siczek

As a diplomat, Andrei Sannikov was instrumental in Belarus' nuclear disarmament in the 1990s. Under dictator Lukashenko, he resigned from the civil service and began the fight for a democratic Belarus, which cost the lives of companions and landed him in prison for a time. Today, as a stateless diplomat, he tirelessly tries to interest Western politicians in his homeland.

Germany 2015, 86 min
by Pawel Siczek

The film HALF THE TOWN tells the story of Jewish photographer and municipal politician Chaim Berman. Before World War Two broke out, he was actively engaged in a peaceful coexistence of Poles, Jews, and Germans in his Polish hometown. But before too long, his cosmopolitan attitude turned into a personal disaster… The elaborate animation - inspired by the works of painter Marc Chagall - brings a long since forgotten world back to life. Photographer Berman’s legacy of approximately 10,000 portrait