The 13th Jewish Film Festival kicks off in Warsaw
PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska
02.11.2015 13:07
Throughout the week, spectators at the Jewish Film Festival in the Polish capital will have the opportunity to watch Jewish-themed productions from across Europe, and beyond.
Photo courtesy of http://www.wjff.pl/en/
A total of 30 movies, among them feature films, documentaries and shorts, will be screened at Warsaw's Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Jewish Community Center.
The productions will be competing for an array of awards, including the Grand Prix, a prize sponsored by the Polish Culture Ministry, and the Special Award, funded by the president of the state broadcaster TVP.
The lineup includes Michał Szczerbic’s Righteous, a story of six-year-old girl Hania caught up in the mayhem of World War II, an atrocity which polarised Poles’ attitudes towards saving the Jews from the Nazis. The programme also features Jerzy Śladkowski’s Amnesia, a documentary on the pogrom of Jews by Polish perpetrators following the war, alongside US filmmaker Adam Zucker’s The Return, which looks into the revival of Judaism and Jewish culture in Poland.
First set up in 2003, the Jewish Film Festival seeks to foster knowledge about the Jewish cultural heritage and history in both Poland and the world, while helping spread ethnic and religious tolerance.
Admission to all the screenings is free of charge. The festival runs until Sunday, 8 November.
For more information go to the festival’s official website. (aba/rk)
Source: PAP