Press
“This film is beautifully crafted with moving interviews from the older generations and their younger families. The animated scenes of events during the war bring it all home with dramatic impact. Potash’s film should stand as a vital document in the history of Gniewoszów. Documentaries like Among Neighbors can tell a story that isn’t being written in history books in a way that is relatable and accessible. Kudos to Potash for bringing this story to light.”
- Bradley Gibson, Film Threat, Review: Among Neighbors
“Yoav Potash’s quietly disturbing documentary… Among Neighbors ultimately serves as an object lesson for the future of America.”
- Peter Wong, BeyondChron, Reviews From S.F. IndieFest 2025
“The addition of animation is a departure for Potash, who previously earned praise for the 2011 documentary Crime After Crime, and 2010’s Food Stamped... Among Neighbors, meanwhile, looks to be Potash’s most powerful work yet.”
- Rae Alexandra, KQED, Movies We’re Excited About at This Year’s SF IndieFest
“Among Neighbors examines what happened in a small Polish village… It’s about owning up to our history, good and bad.”
- Lance Orozco, KCLU, Film premiering in Santa Barbara tells little known story of post WW II murders of Jews in Poland
*SPOILER ALERT* While we are proud of this NPR news story, listeners should be advised that it reveals details from the final act of the film!
“…Among Neighbors, a sort of documentary companion piece to A Real Pain—in that it is also about Jewish Americans traveling to Poland to find what traces they can of their ancestors, whose communities and cultures largely disappeared with the Holocaust.”
- Dennis Harvey, 48hills, Screen Grabs: SF Indiefest kicks out of the gate, ready to rock
“Among Neighbors shows Polish-Jewish wounds, but so those wounds can heal more quickly, and so that we can understand the less obvious parts of Polish history more easily.”
- Maciej Gąsiorowski, TVP1, Report on "Among Neighbors" winning the film festival Special Award in Warsaw
“It is a story about the coexistence of Polish Catholics and Jews in the small town of Gniewoszów, which was suddenly interrupted by the war, combining contemporary materials, archives and animated fragments. A dark and cruel, but not hopeless, story is discovered by the descendants of former inhabitants who return there years later.”
- Anna Tatarska, Radio 357, Jesse Eisenberg i Jennifer Grey o "Prawdziwym bólu"/ Yoav Potash o polsko-żydowskiej historii/American Film FEstival/za kamerą: Anthony Dod Mantle
“Yoav Potash’s documentary feature [Among Neighbors] received the Envision award, an inaugural laurel awarded to a project that highlights antisemitism”
- Sophia Scorziello, Variety, Jewish Film Institute Awards Completion Grants to Six Independent Films
