Our guests & laureats:
-
Mr. Paul Mazursky
- Tarantino`s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS:
was awarded by Special David Camera`09
- Our 6th WJFF`08 was dedicated to late Master Gustaw Holoubek (85)
- Our Warsaw Jewish Film Festival did support financially CUNIO CENTER for PEACE named of Ahmed Khatib in Jenin, Palestine 2008
- Wajda`s KATYŃ:
Festival`07 openning - Oscar`08 Nomination
- Israeli BEAUFORT:
Festival`07 selection - Oscar`08 Nomination
- West Bank Story:
Oscar`07 & David Camera`06
- Janusz Kaminski & David Camera 06 for MUNICH
- Grace Guggenheim
Jury Chairwomen 06
- Peace negotiations at WJFF 06:Israel & Palestine
- Agnes Varda & David Camera 05, Paris 06
- Amos Gitai, 2005
- Laios Koltai & John Daly, Jury 05
- Lina & Slava Chaplin 05
- Daniela Weber from Berlinale 05
- Education 05 for college students from Warsaw
- Irvin Kershner, Jury 04
- Openning Ceremony 03
- Janusz Zaorski, M.Frackowiak 03
- Prof. Shewach Weiss & T. Friedman
- Gen. Sławomir Petelicki 03
- S.p.Prof.Henryk Kluba, Jury Chairman 03
& the Honorary David Camera Award`10
The introduction word
The long history of Polish Jews is an inseparable part of history in Poland. The tragic and murderous events, degenerate ideologies destroyed the prominent and unique Yiddish language culture existing until the 1940s. This rich cultural inheritance obligates us today as residents of the same country and community to remember this remarkable legacy. It is no coincidence that Warsaw was chosen to be the place of our FESTIVAL. It is not only the place where we were born and have lived. Warsaw had the second largest concentration of Jews after New York until World War Two. Warsaw was a place of full- blown culture for Polish Jews, creating many avenues of creativity beside the Yiddish Polish language.
The former world of the Yiddish civilization is gone forever. We see however, that there is a great need for education; a growing
need for learning about their similar past heritage is necessary for both the Polish and Jewish people. This is the new generation who will create the current Jewish Polish reality. So we believe that the FESTIVAL will be an awakening, bringing the present, traditional Jewish culture to all those interested, while remaining in a strong voice in multicultural family of European and world nations. Today I amonce again pleased to invite you to explore Jewish life and culture in all its richness on the screen. I hope you will find inspiration in the films that offer a profound insight into the past and present of the Jewish community.
Daniel Strehlau,
Warsaw, November 2003
