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IVth International Film Festival "Jewish Motifs"
The festival takes place in the "Muranow" cinema from May 5th to May 10th 2007.
The festival is a tribute to the Jewish nation, its tradition, national identity, culture and history- both recent and through the ages. Its purpose is to preserve the memory about a nation that is so important in the polish history. Presented films besides their artistic values also are a learning experience. They search understanding and knowledge about mutual relations. It is not a coincidence that that the prize of the festival is the Warsaw Fenix, a symbol of rebirth of the nations- Poles and Jews.
Today we are looking at a world where children of the Survivors have built their lives and homes. We want to learn how the jewish community develops in different countries and especially in Israel.
The festival is a review but also a competition of following movies: documentary, feature, animated, experimental and short films. They were all produced in years 2005-2007.
Entrance to all films is free of charge.
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Jury
Alona Frankel, a writter from Israel.
Piotr Fudakowski, film producer, lives in London and Koscielisko (Poland)
Yoram Golan, chairmen of the Israeli Film Promotion Fund.
Aleksander Kwiatkowski, film critic, lives in Stokholm
Peter Mostovoy, film director, lives in Israel
Special guest of the festival - Artur Brauner is one of the most outstanding European producers and film managers.
He was born in Łódź on August 1st 1918, in a wealthy Jewish family. He was the oldest son of a wholesale wood merchant, Moshe Brauner and his wife Brana. They gave him the name Abraham, but he soon (in the primary school) stopped to use this name and wished to be called Artur. He was musically talented, played violin, sang and composed, but his greatest love was cinema. He hung the photos of film heroes over his bed and at any occasion, often using strange tricks, he secretly left home to sit in a dark, dusty cinema hall and impatiently wait for the appearance on the screen of tough cowboys, black characters, sheriffs or heroic lovers.
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After the War, Brauner did not stay in Poland, even though his native Łódź existed. He decided to go to North America with his brother Wolf. However, he landed in Berlin. He started his family there and began to develop his professional career in an "express" speed; it commenced with the establishment in 1946 of his film studio CCC-Film-Kunst. During over fifty years of professional work Artur Brauner made more than two hundred fifty films. Those that present the Holocaust and do not allow us to forget about the time of the Nazi regime, have an important position among them. Honoring his "long and outstanding activity in German film industry" he was decorated with the Golden Film
Sash. He is also the winner of ARTUR award - Nagroda Specjalna Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi – which he was granted for "creative contribution to the development of film art".
Sponsors
Main sponsor: City of Warsaw
Polish Film Institute
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Ministry of Culture
Polish Post Office
ZAiKS
Jewish Community in Warsaw
Telewizja Polska S.A.
Shalom Foundation
US Embassy
French Embassy
French Institute in Warsaw
ProHelvetia- Szwajcarska Fundacja dla Kultury
Austrian Culture Forum
Restaurant "U Szwejka"
CCC Film Production GmbH
and private donators
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