Warsaw Jewish Film Festival
The Warsaw Jewish Film Festival () is an annual Jewish film festival held in Warsaw, Poland. Organized in 2003 by American film director , it was the first one of this type on Poland, and one of the first and largest in the Eastern Europe. The main idea of the festival is to present both the contemporary and traditional culture of the Jewish people. It is the continuation of the cultural tradition started with the Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków in 1988. 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. Awards The festival issues annual awards for films on Jewish topics. Its Grand Prix is called "David's Camera" (), sketched on the festival's logo. It is issued separately for categories of full-length films and of shorts. Winners 2018 (director), (writer), Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story (2017). David Camera Award Best Documentary Feature Brandon Gross (director), Skyler Gross (director), On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi (2017), about Roman (Popi) and Ruth (Nani) Blank, Holocaust survivors. David Camera Award, Best Short Documentary 2006 Roman