Joanna is one of the first titles officially confirmed by the festival. The final list of selected films is to be announced on June 2.

The film won the Best Director and Best Screenplay Prizes at the 2010 Gdynia Polish Film Festival. Produced for TV Polska by Akson Studio, Joanna is set during the German occupation of Warsaw in WWII. Joanna, a waitress, sees seven-year-old Roza who managed to escape the Nazi police and decides to take care of the girl until her family is found. The measures of precaution she undertakes seem to protect her from the death sentence in force for hiding a Jewish person, until one night the Nazis knock on her door.

Following the international premiere screening in Moscow, the film will have its North American premiere in the program of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2011 (July 21 - August 8).

The Moscow IFF will present several other TVP films, including the documentary Declaration of Immortality by Marcin Koszalka which has received international recognition in recent months with prestigious prizes in Tampere, Chicago and Trento. Produced by TVP1, Declaration of Immortality is a portrait of Piotr "Mad" Korczak - a legend among Polish climbers, who initiated the whole range of techniques of "conquering" the walls, and was the first to begin to consider climbing as a sport. Koszalka - a film director and one of Piotr's former followers - asks him inevitable questions about the impact of age: How does he deal with a passage of time? How does he perceive youth and growing old? How he expects his end to look like? Piotr "Mad" Korczak's insights into the existential nature of physical activity and at the same time on the nature of filmmaking form a pedestal spread with a magnificent and breathtaking picture of human ability to climb the highest peaks and to conquer the most difficult mountains.