Warsaw Jewish Film Festival Explained

Warsaw Jewish Film Festival
Location:	Warsaw, Poland
Founded:	2003
Language:	Polish, English, other

The Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (Polish: Warszawski Festiwal Filmów o Tematyce Żydowskiej) is an annual Jewish film festival held in Warsaw, Poland.^[1] Organized in 2003 by American film director, it was the first one of this type on Poland,^[2] and one of the first and largest in the Eastern Europe.^[3]

The main idea of the festival is to present both the contemporary and traditional culture of the Jewish people.^[4] It is the continuation of the cultural tradition started with the Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków in 1988.^[5]

The festival is a member of the Association of European Jewish Film Festivals, which was established during the World Conference of Jewish Film Festival Directors in Boston in 2004.^[6]

Awards

The festival issues annual awards for films on Jewish topics. Its Grand Prix is called "David's Camera" (Polish: Kamera Dawidova), sketched on the festival's logo. It is issued separately for categories of full-length films and of shorts.

Winners

2018

• (director), (writer), Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story (2017). David Camera Award Best Documentary Feature
• Brandon Gross (director), Skyler Gross (director), (2017), about Roman (Popi) and Ruth (Nani) Blank, Holocaust survivors.^[7] David Camera Award, Best Short Documentary

2006

• Roman Polanski David's Camera Award for his film The Pianist and for his lifetime contribution in cinematography.^[8]

See also

• Jewish Motifs International Film Festival, Warsaw

Notes and References

1. Kurz . Iwona . 2009 . Oswajanie przeszłości . Taming the past . Kino . 43 . 499 . 44–45 . Polish .
2. Łukaszewicz, Magdalena, "Talent i tupet", Newsweek Polska no. 5, February 2, pp. 89–91
3. Web site: Festiwal Filmów o Tematyce Żydowskiej. Aż 30 nowych projekcji. PL. Wyborcza.pl. November 17, 2019.
4. Web site: "Droga Aszera" oraz "Park uchodźców" z Kamerami Dawida. Zakończył się 15. Warszawski Festiwal Filmów o Tematyce Żydowskiej. dziennik.pl. November 30, 2017. PL.
5. Book: Humeniuk. Monika. Paszenda. Iwona. Między ekskluzją a inkluzją w edukacji religijnej. 2017 . 978-8362618347. PL. 248.
6. Web site: Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, since 2003. www.wjff-archive.pl. Dec 27, 2022.
7. Web site: On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi . wjff.pl. Dec 27, 2022.
8. http://www.wjff-archive.pl/pl/2006/nagrody/ Honorowa Kamera Dawida 2006, 2006 Warsaw Jewish Film Festival