The 22nd Warsaw Jewish Film Festival will be held on November 4-10, 2024 in person and online.

Screenings will take place in MURANOW cinema and the POLIN Museum in Warsaw from November 4th to November 10th. Selected films will be available online on VOD.WARSZAWA.pl (Poland-wide from November 15th to November 30th).

CALL FOR FILMS FOR THE FESTIVAL 2024 IS ALREADY CLOSED. Films selected to the festival programme will be announced by October 1st. More about the film selection process please visit our platform on FILMFREEWAY.

Established in 2003, festival has 22 years of experience in sourcing the best international films with Jewish-related content (fiction, documentaries, and short films). Impactful movies, which promote Jewish culture and diversity, explore Jewish history as well as contemporary life of Jewish communities from Poland and around the globe.

Our goal is to give Jewish and non-Jewish moviegoers the opportunity to get acquainted with different perspectives of Jewish issue reflected on the screen and encourage dialogue and social change. Since the first edition in 2003, we showed our audience more than 1000 movies from more than 30 countries!

WJFF loves to promote filmmakers working with Jewish themes. Our festival has an international competition with THE CAMERA OF DAVID AWARDS. Our team selected and awarded dozens of movies which later won OSCARS & awards at the biggest world-famous festivals!

WJFF presents THE CAMERA OF DAVID AWARDS in the following categories:

Best Film of the Festival - Grand Prix
Best Narrative Feature
Best Documentary Feature
Best Short
Audience Award

The JURY VERDICT will be announced during the Festival Closing Ceremony on November 10th.

Soon more about the festival's programme. Follow us on social media and stay tuned to our website for upcoming announcements: FB: WarsawJewishFilmFestival @warsawjewishfilmfestival

FESTIVAL'S IDEA

WJFF has been a destination for international award-winning films on Jewish topics and themes since 2003, which makes it the oldest festival of this kind in Poland and Eastern Europe. 

Festival has 22 years of experience in offering the finest film & educational programs to audiences across Warsaw city and Poland-wide. Since its first edition has welcomed thousands of movie-goers and guests from around the world, and every year presented hundreds of the best international films, which were selected at the world famous film festivals. Films that premiered at the WJFF have gone on to win major awards worldwide (The Academy Award-winning films: Ida, West Bank Story, The Pianist). 

The Festival has grown to include a variety of arts and media – from film workshops and student film productions, through culinary workshops, online screenings & live webinars, to a music performances and photo exhibits. We encourage our audience to a discussion about Jewish identity and to strive against stereotypes and anti-Semitism, in order to stimulate more tolerant attitudes and a greater respect for the human rights of all people and nations.

The Festival also prides itself on its in-depth post-screening conversations with filmmakers and other experts run throughout the year in few other cities in Poland as: Krakow, Wroclaw, Plonsk, Lublin, Lodz, Gdansk.

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By making a donation you contribute to the statutory activities of our Foundation (the main organizer of the annual Warsaw Jewish Film Festival), that include not only annual Jewish Film Festival, but also educational and cultural programs which we organize all year round (https://wjff.pl/en/projects).

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For further information, please e-mail us at: warsawjff@wjff.pl

THE MAIN FESTIVAL PARTNER IS THE POLIN MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS.

THE FESTIVAL IS CO-FINANCED BY THE CITY OF WARSAW.

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