The 22nd Warsaw Jewish Film Festival will take place on November 4-10 2024 as in person event & online POLAND-wide!

The Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (WJFF) is the first ever and the largest Jewish Film Festival in Poland and eastern Europe. Established in 2003 has 22 years experience in sourcing the best international movies and debuts with the Jewish theme. Movies which are dedicated to exploring Jewish culture, history and contemporary life of Jewish communities from around the globe.

Our goal is to give Jewish and non-Jewish movie-goers the opportunity to get acquainted with different perspectives of Jewish issue reflected on the screen. 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!

We are a non-profit organization that promotes appreciation and pride in the diversity of the Jewish culture. The submission fees helping us to promote selected films and their authors. THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK!

Awards & Prizes

FILM COMPETITION GENERAL RULES:
1. We are looking for brand new films with Jewish theme, completed in 2023 - 2024, preferably international, European or Polish premieres.

2. Only films with Jewish content or Jewish characters will be considered for the festival's competition. Suitable films on Jewish themes may include culture, history, spirituality, biography, Holocaust, perspectives of contemporary life of Jews from all over the world.

3. Suitable category of films: narrative feature, documentary feature, narrative short, documentary short, animated short. Films which had previous screenings at the regular cinema distribution in Poland or were broadcasted Poland-wide will be not accepted for the competition of the WJFF.

4. The submission regular deadline is August 1st, 2024.

5. The Official Selection (list of selected films) will be announced by October 15th, 2024 on the festival website: www.wjff.pl and its social media.

4. THE CAMERA OF DAVID AWARDS will be presented during the Festival Closing Ceremony.
The JURY VERDICT will be announced 1 day after the Ceremony on the festival website and social media.

5. 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 (Narrative / Documentary / Animation)

and
AUDIENCE AWARD!

Rules & Terms

FILM SUBMISSION GENERAL RULES:

1. Suitable category of movies for the competition of the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (WJFF):

- Films with the running time up to about 40 minutes: narrative short, documentary short, animated short

- Films with the running time longer than 40 minutes: narrative feature, documentary feature

2. Films should be completed in 2023-2024.

3. Films which had previous screenings at the regular cinema distribution in Poland will be not accepted for the competition of the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (WJFF), but may be considered for a special festival's screening.

4. Films that have screened on PL network or cable television prior to the festival dates are ineligible for competition, but may be considered for a special festival's screening.

5. Films must be submitted trough online platform: https://filmfreeway.com/WarsawJewishFilmFestival

6. Films including dialogues in languages other than English must provide English subtitles.

7. By submitting the movie you agree to the terms of participation in the competition and criteria for the film selection process for Warsaw Jewish Film Festival.

8. Once an entry payment has been processed we can not provide a refund.

Thank you for submitting the movie to the 22nd WARSAW JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024.
THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING YOUR FILM AND GOOD LUCK!

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  • Oleg Yakovlev

    I was happy to be invited to the festival! It was a well-organized event where I saw a few amazing movies and got acquainted with a few directors. The schedule and timing were very well done!

    November 2024
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  • Ryoya Terao

    We were so glad to be part of WJFF. Thank you for selecting "13 Driver's Licenses," (13 DL) our short documentary. We couldn't be in Warsaw in October, but back in the summer, we were in some regions of Poland for filming our new film, the expansion of 13 DL. I would like to write here that we were very much touched by all Polish people whom we met during the production. Dziękuję!

    November 2023
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  • avigail graetz

    What a great festival. Even though we were on the online version it was a pleasure to be part of this great and well kept festival! Thank you and hope to be there in person next time...

    December 2021
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  • Nir Berger

    Great team, lovely communication, impressive attendance, only wish we could physically attend. Hopefully next time!

    November 2020
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  • Nejemye Tenenbaum

    I was not able to be in the festival due to long distance travel but I am extremely joyful and grateful the WJFF accepted our film. The treatment by Magda, the festival director, was extraordinary, polite, kind and very profesional. It was an honor to be part of this festival.

    November 2019
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