The Warsaw Jewish Film Festival ( pl, Warszawski Festiwal Filmów o Tematyce Żydowskiej) is an annual Jewish

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending up ...

held in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

. Organized in 2003 by American film director , it was the first one of this type on Poland, and one of the first and largest in the Eastern Europe. The main idea of the festival is to present both the contemporary and traditional culture of the Jewish people. It is the continuation of the cultural tradition started with the Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków in 1988. 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.

Awards

The festival issues annual awards for films on Jewish topics. Its Grand Prix is called "

David David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

's Camera" ( pl, 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 Etgar Keret ( he, אתגר קרת, born August 20, 1967) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. Personal life Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. He is a third chil ...

: 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 survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...

s. David Camera Award, Best Short Documentary

2006

Roman Polanski Raymond Roman Thierry Polański , group=lower-alpha, name=note_a ( né Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, tw ...

David's Camera Award for his film '' The Pianist'' and for his lifetime contribution in cinematography.Honorowa Kamera Dawida 2006, 2006 Warsaw Jewish Film Festival
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