The 1st Warsaw Film Festival called “The Jewish Motifs” is taking place in the Polish capital. It was inaugurated during yesterday’s ceremony by the renowned Oscar winning director Andrzej Wajda and the writer Józef Hen. There will be 60 films from 19 countries touching upon the Jewish theme shown during the next 9 days. The Festival is also accompanied by discussions, seminars and special screenings, e.g. including a retrospective called “The Jewish Film in the pre-war Poland”. Today, a controversial documentary from last year’s March of the Living directed by Grzegorz Linkowski is to be shown. It tells a story of the Oświęcim meeting of Martin Bormann, the son of the main Holocaust ideologists, with a catholic priest Romuald Weksler Waszkinel who discovered his Jewish roots late in his adulthood.