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.