Reviews & Quotes | Among Neighbors

The Hollywood Reporter | Steven Zeitchik, Senior Editor, Technology and Politics
“STIRRING… The animation holds its own with the likes of modern documentary classics such as Waltz with Bashir.”

CNN | Jake Tapper, Lead Washington Anchor
“Among Neighbors is relevant to the efforts by some in this country to pretend that slavery didn’t happen in the United States. It’s a weak country that cannot acknowledge its shameful chapters.”

San Francisco Chronicle | G. Allen Johnson, Staff Writer
“REMARKABLE... at times more like an absorbing true crime movie.”

This Week in New York | Mark Rifkin, Writer & Editor
“Ten years in the making, the film is A GRIPPING, DEEPLY EMOTIONAL MURDER MYSTERY.”

Jewish Journal | Ayala Or-El, Journalist
“A POWERFUL FUSION OF ANIMATION AND TESTIMONY, where art and memory intertwine. Through this MASTERFUL blend of visual storytelling and firsthand accounts, ‘Among Neighbors’ transcends traditional documentary form, becoming part magical realism, part investigative reporting and part historical reckoning. At its heart lies a chilling truth.”

The Jewish News of Northern California | Sue Fishkoff, Editor Emerita, J-Weekly
“Potash weaves a POWERFUL and, at times, BEAUTIFUL tale of human suffering, longing and resilience… illustrated in this film by gorgeous hand-drawn animation created by two international teams. That creative flourish lifts the tale from straight documentary into the realm of magic realism, evoking a lost world with beautiful delicacy.”

Columbia University | Annette Insdorf, Professor of Film & Author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust
“This film utilizes animation on a level that is on a level that is not literal, but to turn the fact-based story into something poetic. We are led to experience the relationship between Polish Catholics and Polish Jews, and also the thorny issue of Polish antisemitism that is part of the fabric of this investigative and revelatory film.”