1st Moscow Jewish Film Festival
The  1st Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. The festival was first held in Moscow from 14 to 17 June 2015, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the Documentary film center and cinema GUM.
== Jury ==
Konstantin Fam — film director, producer, screenwriter
Alexander Boroda — Rabbi, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia
Yekaterina Mtsituridze — television presenter, film critic and head of Roskino
Alexander Kott —  film director, screenwriter, producer
Ruslan Sorokin — screenwriter, producer
== Creators ==
CEO and Producer — Egor Odintsov
Program Director — Vanya Bowden
Educational Director — Rusina Lekuh
== Program ==
Nomination Jews Today:Wake up, O Zion (2013) - United States
Felix and Meira (2014) - Canada
Journey Hannah (2014) - Germany, Israel
Somewhere (2014) - Germany
Get (2014) - Israel, France, Germany
Nomination A true story:When people die - sing (2014) - Russia, the United States
Jacob Kreizer. Forgotten General (2015) - Russia
There will come a night (2014) - Great Britain, Germany, United States, Israel, Denmark, France
Regina (2013) - Hungary, UK, Germany
Rachel: Woman marked Air (2013) - the United States, Argentina
About Susan Sontag (2014) - United States
Nomination A short story:Salome's Nose (2014) - Germany, United States
End Boulevard (2014) - Germany, USA
Squirrel and the Penguin (2012) - United Kingdom
Human Principle (2014) - Germany
Auschwitz in the head (2013) - Israel, Poland, United Kingdom
I am Mitzvah (2014) - United States
Out of competition:Shoes (2012) - Russia, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, France
The Rabbi's Cat (2011) - France
Ida (2013) - Poland, Denmark
Israeli animation Avi Chai Foundation (2014) - Israel
== Education ==
In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival, consisting of lectures, discussions and debates. The speakers were: Russian philosopher Igor Chubarov, writer Linor Goralik,  researcher of Jewish thought Uri Gershovich, gospel playwright Maria Zielinskaya, historian Sergei Stepanishev and others.
== Winners ==
Winner in the Brief - End Boulevard (2014)
The winner in the nomination The Jews of today - Somewhere (2014)
Winner in the category Certificate - Documentary Was night (2014)
Honorary Prize For outstanding contribution to the development of Jewish cinema in Russia - Yakov Kaller
Special prize of the Jury - Documentary Regina (2013)
Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival

== External links ==
Official website