Name: 'A Real Pain' Film Screening
Start: 2026-01-29T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-29T19:30:00+00:00
Location: OA3/13, Oastler Building

Join us to watch 'A Real Pain', the first in a series of screenings from Cultures of Film in partnership with Holocaust Centre North.
About this Event

A Real Pain (2024) is a comedy-drama written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. It follows two American Jewish cousins — the reserved family man David (Eisenberg) and his free-spirited, unpredictable cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin) — as they travel through Poland on a Jewish heritage tour to honor their late grandmother and connect with their family’s past. During the trip they visit historic sites such as Warsaw, Lublin, and a Nazi concentration camp, and the journey forces them to confront long-buried tensions in their relationship, opening the door to reconciliation and deeper understanding. The film blends humor and emotion as it explores family, grief, identity, and connection.