The Grandfather Puzzle

Directed by Ora Dekornfeld · 2026

A filmmaker travels to Hungary to photograph the castle her 100-year-old grandfather, a former baron who fled the Holocaust, grew up in and turns it into a puzzle they can solve together.

A tender, inventive attempt to break a lifetime of silence with a jigsaw puzzle.

Growing up middle-class in Maryland, Ora DeKornfeld was only vaguely aware that her Hungarian grandfather was once a baron who lost everything fleeing the Holocaust. Now, at the age of 100, he refuses to do anything but

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