Warsaw Jewish Film Festival

Annual film festival held in Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival
LocationWarsaw, Poland
Founded2003
LanguagePolish, English, other
Websitewjff.pl/en/

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 Daniel Strehlau [pl], 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

  • Stephane Kaas [nl] (director), Rutger Lemm [nl] (writer), Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story (2017). David Camera Award Best Documentary Feature
  • Brandon Gross (director), Skyler Gross (director), On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi (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

References

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

External links

  • Official website