NEWS

Judges of 9^th edition of Jewish Motifs IFF awarded films:

GRAND PRIX – Golden Warsaw Phoenix

and 15 000 PLN funded by the Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz:

The Flat, dir. Arnon Goldfinger

Warsaw Phoenix

for the best feature film

and 5 000 PLN funded by the President of Polish Television Juliusz Braun:

When Day Breaks, dir. Goran Paskaljević

Warsaw Phoenix

for the best documentary film

and 5 000 PLN funded by the President of Polish Television Juliusz Braun:

Hitler’s Children, dir. Chanoch Ze’evi

Warsaw Phoenix

for the best short film

and 5 000 PLN funded by the Head of Polish Film Institute Agnieszka Odorowicz:

Catherine the Great, dir. Anna Kuntsman

Our viewers awarded with Audience Award film:

Hava Nagila, dir. Roberta Grossman

SPECIAL AWARDS:

Warsaw Phoenix

Antoni Marianowicz Award for the best Polish film

and 15 000 PLN funded by Association of Authors ZAiKS:

Tonia and Her Children, dir. Marcel Łoziński

Warsaw Phoenix

and 8 000 PLN funded by the Jewish Community of Warsaw

for the best presentation of contemporary Jewish life in film:

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire, dir. Daniel Edelstyn

No Full Stop, dir. Shlomo Slutzky

The Ger Mandolin Orchestra Award

1000$ funded by Avner Yonai

for a film or a project that excel in a cultural preservation through reconstructing music:

Ida Haendel – This Is My Heritage