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JEWISH MOTIFS Free entrance to all competition film projections. Organizers: Jewish Motifs Association, Gutek Film, Media Kontakt The project financed from the funds provided by the Municipal Office of the Capital City of Warsaw and Polish Institute of Film Art. www.jewishmotifs.org kontakt@jewishmotifs.org	Muranów Cinema will host the authors of feature films, documentaries, and animations, who will take us in a long journey from the historical times of Poland to today’s Iran. 47 films starting in the competition, which will compete to win the Warsaw Phoenix Award, will deal with broadly understood Jewish themes, such as the history of the Jewish Nation, contemporary life of young Israelis or Palestinian-Israeli conflict. We will also see artistic films on Jewish music, painting or other arts inspired by the rich heritage of Jewish culture. The same as in the previous years, the Festival will also include films on Jewish religiousness, which will show its beauty, exotics, but also problems and objections, which it raises especially among young Jews, who attempt to reconcile faithfulness to the tradition with reality of contemporary life. The audience will see the films made by Polish filmmakers, Americans, Israelis, Belgians or British, which is yet another proof that Jewish culture attracts filmmakers from all over the world.	The Honorary Guest of the Festival will be the renowned director and producer Janusz Morgenstern. The retrospective of his artistic work will include the following films: “Yovita”, “See You Tomorrow”, “The Ambulance”, “And All Will Be Quiet”, “To Kill This Love” and “Yellow Scarf”. A special event of this year’s Festival will be the premiere of the film “Jellyfish” directed by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, which will be soon released in Polish cinemas. Shira Geffen will be our guest at Muranów Cinema on the night of the premiere. The event accompanying the film shows will be an exhibition of photos in the foyer of Muranów Cinema entitled “Chalutzim” [Pioneers] being a record of the memories of the pioneers, who established the State of Israel forty years ago and who still live there. The exhibition is inspired by a documentary film made by Marco Cavallarin and Marco Mensa. You are welcome to discuss about "JEWISH MOTIFS"