Living most of his adult life in Chicago, Franek (Ireneusz Czop), developed a fondness for throwing the word “Yid” around. But upon returning to Poland after a 20 year absence, Franek discovers the town he grew up in harbors a bulwark of genuine, old-school anti-Semites. Schindler’s Light. Writer-director Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s “inspired by actual events” account is worth noting more for the issue it brings to light — the workaday slaughter of Jews at the hands of Poles during WWII — than the manner in which the narrative unfolds. The bus kiosk with a Star of David hangman game graffitied to its side that greets Franek trumpets a heavy hand. The nightmarish faces that line the tiny village of Jedwabne would feel right at home in Victor Frankenstein’s Bavarian burg. Exposition comes in clusters and the set up and subsequent action scenes owe more to stale '70s actioners than historical brevity. (2013) — Scott Marks