2015 Jury Verdict of 13th WJFF - here!



2015 Gallery

Nov 2

More than 400 distinguished guests, filmmakers and moviegoers joined the Opening ceremony of the 13th edition 2015 on Nov 2, 2015.


photo by Maciej Komorowski, mckomorowski@gmail.com


Screening at Jewish Community Center Warsaw - a doc RAISE THE ROOF, dir. by Yari and Cary Wolinsky

November 3


photo by Maciej Komorowski, mckomorowski@gmail.com


November 4

Meeting with a director Matej Minac, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER


photo by Maciej Komorowski, mckomorowski@gmail.com




November 5

Screening of the doc WZNIESMY DACH: SYNAGOGA Z GWOZDZCA / RAISE THE ROOF, dir. by Yari and Cary Wolinsky


photo by Maciej Komorowski, mckomorowski@gmail.com




November 6

Screening of the doc: MÓJ TATA GENE GUTOWSKI /DANCING BEFORE THE ENEMY, dir. by Adam Bardach


Screening of the short: DYLEMAT SZCZURA / RAT'S DILEMMA, dir. by NAOR MENINGHER


Photo by Magda Strehlau

November 7


The screening of: KLEZMER, dir by Piotr Chrzan - Q & A


photo by Maciej Komorowski, mckomorowski@gmail.com


November 8


The Closing Ceremony of 13. WJFF 2015


photo by Maciej Komorowski, mckomorowski@gmail.com




Invite our Festival to your city...


The 13. WJFF 2015 is going to organize as well “The educational post-festival screenings” all over the Poland. These screenings are aimed at popularizing the art of film and building tolerance and sensitivity to diversity and the fight against anti-Semitism in PL. That program is the continuity of screenings, which we started in March 2004. The 12th edition post-festival screenings already took place and additional are planned in: Auschwitz Museum in Oswiecim, Galicia Museum in collaboration with the International Festival of Jewish Culture in Cracow, Gdansk, Lodz, Tarnow, Wroclaw and Bialystok in collaboration of ZAHOR Festival of Jewish Culture.

List of films awarded at the 12th Warsaw Film Festival Jewish, that reached in the program:
• BRZOSTEK: HISTORY OF A RETURN, dir. Simon Target, Australia / Poland 2014
• SAMUEL, dir. Jan Kidawa Blonski, Poland 2013
• FOREST OF SHADOWS, dir. Andrzej Cichocki, Poland 2014
• RAQUEL - WOMAN marked, dir. Gabriela Bohm, USA 2014
• GANG Rosenthal, dir. Nae Caranfil, Poland / Romania / USA / France / Italy, 2014
• Longing, dir Nadav Mishael. Israel 2014.

Krakow City - Galicia Jewish Museum

We are proud to inform you, that our Festival organizes the series of screenings together with GALICIA MUSEUM KRAKOW - MUZEUM GALICJA KRAKÓW in Krakow City. The first screening took place in January 2015, the next one tales place in July 2015.

2015, January

Białystok

As part of the series of year-round screenings organized by the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival and held under the patronage of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, on February 23, 2015, Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski High School in Bialystok hosted an educational screening of a documentary A Town Called Brzostek. The showing of the film directed by Simon Target, which received Special Mention at the 12th Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, was coupled with award-winning The Shadow Forest by Andrzej Cichocki (Best Short Narrative at the 12th WJFF). The project was carried out in cooperation with the Center for Civic Education Poland-Israel.

THE PROJECT IS HELD THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF THE BANK ZACHODNI WBK FOUNDATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE BANK OF AMBITIOUS YOUTH GRANT PROGRAM.