Q&As

31.05— 7.06.2026

The 66th Krakow Film Festival will be held in cinemas from 31 May to 7 June 2027 and online on KFF VOD from 5 June to 19 June 2026.

  • Uli Aigner

    producer
    Holofiction
  • Pepe Andreu

    Director and producer of documentary films and television programmes. He was born in 1973 in Spain. A graduate of Digital Image and Sound, for over 15 years he has worked as a cinematographer for television, a documentary and reportage director and a documentary producer. In 2005 he directed the documentary "Misteri d’Elx: Les Veus d’un Poble" about the UNESCO world heritage treasures. Since 2013, he has been making documentary films with Rafa Moles, which have been screened at major film festivals.

    director
    La Pietà
    Pepe Andreu, portret gościa
  • Oscar Asán

    A Mexican filmmaker with strong roots in audiovisual journalism. His work explores systemic violence and the poetry of the unseen. His debut premiered at Morelia Film Festival (Mexico) in 2021. In 2024, he developed « no_mercy_in_mexico» at the avant-garde film residency Nouvelle Bug (Italy) and premiered it at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2025 (Switzerland).

    director
    no_mercy_in_Mexico
    Oscar Asán, portret gościa
  • Jakub Baniak

    A director of short animated films working across animation, motion design, film, and editing. In his work, he explores alternative approaches to storytelling, combining traditional techniques with new digital media such as VR, photogrammetry, and motion capture. He graduated from the Animation Department at the University of the Arts in Poznań, where he currently works as a teaching assistant in the Drawing Animation Studio, leading workshops and supporting students in the production of their short films. His animated short Empty Room (2020) received a Special Mention at the Animator Festival in Poznań (2021) and was screened at festivals such as Golden FEMI (2023), ZUBROFFKA (2022), LINOLEUM (2021), and Insomnia (2021).

    director
    The Nest
    Jakub Baniak, portret gościa
  • Bipuljit Basu

    A Sundance DFP and IDFA grantee, emerging from India’s documentary scene with a focus on marginalized South Asian narratives. A postgraduate in Social Development, he brings socially significant, culturally resonant stories to global audiences. From 2016–2019, he also worked as an overseas distributor for Bengali cinema, promoting socially conscious films to Indian diasporas worldwide. Bipuljit served as an Asian Jury member at the Science Film Festival, hosted by UNDP and the Goethe-Institut across 94 countries.

    director
    Redlight to Limelight
    Bipuljit Basu, portret gościa
  • Philippe Béziat

    He directed several short musical films, and four opera-documentaries for cinema: 'Gallant Indies' (2021), with Clément Cogitore, Leonardo García Alarcón, Bintou Dembélé and around thirty hip-hop, krump, breakdance and voguing dancers (nominated for the 2022 César Award for Best Documentary and the Lumières Awards); 'Becoming Traviata' (2012), with Natalie Dessay and Jean-François Sivadier; 'Noces, Stravinsky–Ramuz' (2012), with Dominique Reymond and Mirella Giardelli; 'Pelléas and Mélisande' (2009), with Olivier Py and Marc Minkowski. He regularly films also operas and ballets.

    director
    Nous, l'orchestre de Paris
    Philippe Béziat, portret gościa
  • Marcin Borchardt

    Film director, screenwriter and film scholar with a Doctorate in Humanities in the field of art studies. He has directed several award-winning documentary films, including “The Beksińskis: A Sound and Picture Album (2017), as well as commercials, music videos, and television programmes. He is a lecturer at the Gdynia Film School and the University of Gdańsk. Author of academic monographs: 'Awangarda muzyki XX wieku. Przewodnik dla początkujących. Tom 1' (2014), and 'Anioły nie znają wstydu. Transgresja w kinie Nowego Jorku' (2018). Member of the Polish Film Academy (PAF) and the European Film Academy (EFA).

    director
    Magic Hour / My Themersons
    Marcin Borchardt, portret gościa
  • Luuk Bouwman

    He has made several feature-length documentaries, including 'Gerlach', 'The Last Farmer' (2023, IDFA Best Dutch Film Award) with Aliona van der Horst, 'It Is True but Not Here' (2017) about artist and cult musician Dick Verdult and 'All Against All' (2019) about the rise of fascism in the Netherlands, which premiered at IDFA and for which he was awarded the IDFA Stipend 2023. His documentaries are driven by extensive research and long-term engagement with his subjects, revealing processes and mechanisms.

    director
    The Desert of the Real
    Luuk Bouwman, portret gościa
  • Grzegorz Brzozowicz

  • Christoph Büttner

    Born in 1986 in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. In 2021 he graduated from Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation. He currently lives in Schwerin working as an animator and filmmaker on digital animated short films. His productions are characterized by strong analog aesthetics and frequently address social issues.

    director
    Carla and Her Legs
    Christoph Büttner, portret gościa
  • Anastazja Dąbrowska

    She is a director working at the intersection of film and artificial intelligence. She specialises in training language models and multimodal systems, focusing particularly on content quality and creative processes. She holds a degree in Film Directing from the University of Silesia and a degree in Environmental Protection from UKSW in Warsaw. Her interests include the use of AI in storytelling and the ethical implications of new technologies.

    director
    The Last Wild River
    Anastazja Dąbrowska, portret gościa
  • Marco de Stefanis

    An Italian director who, after studying physics, chose a very different career path. He has worked on numerous TV programs and filmed documentaries around the world. Since 2001, he has lived in the Netherlands, working as a freelance documentary filmmaker and teaching at the SAE Institute and the University of Amsterdam. His latest feature-length documentary, 'Waiting for Giraffes', premiered in IDFA’s competition, was selected for CPH:DOX, and won several festival awards.

    director
    The Winning Generation
    Marco de Stefanis, portret gościa
  • Karolina Fronik

    Born in 1998. Director and screenwriter, graduate of directing at the Gdynia Film School and production at the Łódź Film School. As a director, she creates campaigns for brands and music videos, combining visual sensitivity with cinematic storytelling. She is currently developing an 18th-century costume short film and a true crime series. 'My Dear Bag' is her graduation film made at the Gdynia Film School, with its international premiere at the 54th Huesca International Film Festival. Her short film 'Greetings from Sumatra', co-directed with Marta Kowalska, was selected for the International Competition of the 25th Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

    director
    My Dear Bag
    Karolina Fronik, portret gościa
  • Dagmara Furgał

    Since 2002, she has collaborated with Polish Television as a journalist, screenwriter, director, producer, camera operator, and editor. Her work includes documentary films, recurring TV programmes, reportages, screenplays, short promotional forms, and concert broadcasts in Poland and abroad, including Sweden, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, Japan, and Uzbekistan. Since 2007 she has been a member of the European Journalism Centre (EJC), and since 2022 also of the Audiovisual Authors and Producers Association and the Authors’ Association ZAiKS.

    director
    Japanese Kujawiak
    Dagmara Furgał, portret gościa
  • Clyde Gates

    director
    CUL-DE-SAC !
    Clyde Gates, portret gościa
  • Jan Grabowski

    Director, screenwriter, and visual artist working at the intersection of film, video games, and media art. He studied at FAMU and is also a graduate of the Łódź Film School. Currently works at Fool’s Theory as a screenwriter for the video game The Witcher Remake. Filmography (as director and screenwriter): Strange to Be Human (2025), Minitourism (2023), Half-Dream (2023), The Beheading of Death (2020), The Driver (2014), Initiation (2013).

    director
    Weird To Be Human
    Jan Grabowski, portret gościa
  • Smari Gunn

    An Icelandic writer and director, a self-proclaimed football specialist - who loves the game as well as finding the sense of humour in every good story. After receiving a BA training in European Theatre Arts, Smari began creating his own work and further honed his writing skills in the UK through initiatives at the NFTS and BFI Network.

    director
    The Home Game
    Smari Gunn, portret gościa
  • Markku Heikkinen

    An award winning documentary film director and screenwriter who has made more than twenty feature and short films. He graduated as Master of Arts in ELO Film School in Aalto University majoring in Documentary film 2006 with best ratings. Heikkinen is an active social debater and has worked also as a freelancer journalist in numerous radio and TV shows in the National Broadcasting Company YLE from 1984 to 2013. He worked as a screenwriter for Ruthless Times- Songs of Care (dir. Susanna Helke, 2022). He received a Cinema State Prize in 2015.

    director
    The Arctic Circle of Lust
    Markku Heikkinen, portret gościa
  • Marc Isaacs

    Documentary film director and producer. Since 2001, he has directed more than 10 creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His films have won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards, as well as numerous prizes at international festivals. In 2006, he had a retrospective at the États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas and his work has been included in numerous documentary books and academic studies. In 2008, Marc Isaacs received an honorary doctorate from the University of East London for his documentary work.

    director
    Synthetic Sincerity
    Marc Isaacs, portret gościa
  • Mateusz Jarmulski

    Animation film director, screenwriter, and animator. Graduate of the Łódź Film School, specialising in animation. His films have been screened and awarded at over 40 international festivals, including Annecy, Stuttgart, Seoul, Belgrade, and Hiroshima. In addition to his auteur animated shorts, he has directed animated music videos and created visual designs for live concerts. He lectures at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJATK), Faculty of New Media Arts, where he teaches animation.

    director
    Fanatic
    Mateusz Jarmulski, portret gościa
  • Alicja Jasina

    An animation director and illustrator from Szczecin. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Kingston University in London and her master’s degree at the University of Southern California. Her films have won awards at festivals around the world, and her short film “Once Upon a Line” was shortlisted for the 2017 Oscars. She enjoys exploring the boundaries of animation. Her work is original, conceptual and full of humour.

    director
    Almost There or a Weenie
    Alicja Jasina, portret gościa
  • Dagomir Kaszlikowski

    director
    Flicker
    Dagomir Kaszlikowski, portret gościa
  • Katarzyna Kosajda

    Born in 1997. Since 2021 she has been studying directing at the Łódź Film School. Previously she studied Film Studies and New Media at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, as well as photography at the Photography Programme of the Association of Polish Art Photographers. She is currently working on the short fiction film Vodka, Snacks and Pure Beauty, produced by Polish Television within the Promised Land competition.

    director
    Frights from the Mills
    Katarzyna Kosajda, portret gościa
  • Michal Kosakowski

    A Polish-German filmmaker and media artist. Moving between documentary, fiction, and experimental cinema, he explores aesthetic and ethical limits of representation. A Fabrica alumnus who worked with Oliviero Toscani, he gained recognition with Just Like the Movies (2006). He has taught film theory, served on festival juries, and created works such as Fortynine (2007), Zero Killed (2012), and German Angst (2015). Since 2014 he has shaped the visual identity of Uli Aigner’s ONE MILLION project. Holofiction (2025) premiered at 82nd Venice Int. Film Festival.

    director
    Holofiction
    Michal Kosakowski, portret gościa
  • Kuba Kossak

    A cinematographer and visual artist. Initially involved in music – he graduated with honours from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music and was a scholarship holder at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute – he eventually turned his artistic sensibility towards the visual arts. His studies at the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts in New York inspired him to work in the visual arts and film. As a cinematographer, he has worked on international productions, including Disney’s “Maleficent”, as well as numerous music videos and advertising projects. After returning to Warsaw in 2015, he began working as a freelance cinematographer, collaborating with many fashion and beauty brands, such as H&M, Reebok, Skoda and L’Oréal. He is also the director of documentary films and concert recordings for leading Polish artists. For his work on Zbigniew Wodecki’s album “1976: A Space Odyssey” with the band Mitch & Mitch, he received a gold, and subsequently a double platinum, disc.

    director
    The Orchestra
    Kuba Kossak, portret gościa
  • Natalia Krawczuk

    She studied ethnology and cultural anthropology at the University of Warsaw, and animation at the Łódź Film School and the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. She developed her storytelling skills during screenwriting courses at La Poudrière, Young Horizons Lab and the CEE Animation Workshop. She is the director of several animated short films, which have been screened at festivals in Poland and abroad.

    director
    Three Cups of Coffee
    Natalia Krawczuk, portret gościa
  • Jacob Levin Krogh

    producer
    Human Race
  • Jakub Krzyszpin

    Film director and student of the Animation and Special Effects programme at the Łódź Film School. He creates films whose visual style is characterised by a tremulous, expressive line. His films have been screened at international festivals, including Annecy, the Krakow Film Festival, Tirana IFF, Animafest Zagreb and Go Short Nijmegen. His latest film, “Axles”, has been selected for the La Cinef section of the 79th Cannes Film Festival.

    director
    Axles
    Jakub Krzyszpin, portret gościa
  • Alexandra ‘Sasha’ Kutsen

    A director, animator and multimedia artist, currently studying at the Warsaw Film School. She works in mixed media, combining animation, collage, photography and film. Her film 'Przegryw' (2025) has been screened at numerous festivals and was nominated for the Jan Machulski Award for editing. Creator of exhibitions and music videos produced using mixed media.

    director
    They Were All Named Anzhelika
    Alexandra ‘Sasha’ Kutsen, portret gościa
  • Simon Lec

    director
    Human Race
  • Yulia Lokshina

    Born in 1986. She began studying film at the University of Television and Film Munich. As part of her work at the University of Bonn, she creates parallel audiovisual projects at the interface of film and science as well as lectures and publications on the documentary. 'Days of Youth' (2016) premiered at the Duisburg Film Week and was awarded the Starter Film Prize of the City of Munich. Her diploma film 'Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed' (2020) was awarded Best Documentary Film at the Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival 2020 and the megaherz Student Award at the Dokfilmfest München.

    director
    Around Paradise
    Yulia Lokshina, portret gościa
  • Kim Longinotto

    A British documentary film director and cinematographer. She earned her degree in cinematography and film directing from the National Film and Television School. She made her debut in 1976 with the film 'Pride of Place'. She is renowned for her intimate, observational style and focus on women’s lives across cultures. Her critically acclaimed films, such as 'Sisters in Law' (2005), 'Divorce Iranian Style' (1998), and 'Pink Saris' (2010), explore themes of justice, gender, and human rights. Longinotto’s work is characterised by minimal narration and a strong ethical approach, allowing her protagonists to speak for themselves. She has received numerous international awards and is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary documentary filmmakers.

    director
    Rough Aunties / Salma / The Day I Will Never Forget
    Kim Longinotto, portret gościa
  • Pepa Lubojacki

    They/she is a Prague-based scriptwriter and documentary film director. Their first short documentary film "About-hair" was nominated for the Magnesia Award in 2019. It was screened at the Ji.hlava IDFF, Prague shorts (Czech Republic), River Film Festival (Italy), Cineffable (France), MakeDox (Macedonia), Filmfest Weiterstadt (Germany) and Art200 (Romania). "If Pigeons Turned to Gold", their debut feature, had its World Premiere at Berlinale, winning the Berlinale Documentary Award.

    director
    If Pigeons Turned to Gold
    Pepa Lubojacki, portret gościa
  • Monika Masłoń

    Media artist and art educator working at the intersection of experimental film, digital media, and sensory experience. She earned a PhD from the Łódź Film School, where she developed a practice-based doctoral project focused on researching presence and affect in moving images. Her work explores embodied encounters, intersubjective presence, and the poetics of mediated intimacy, translating emotional states into audiovisual and immersive forms including video installations, VR, participatory formats, and sensor-based interfaces. Her recent works include 'Tact of Touch' (WRO Media Art Biennale 2025), exploring tactile perception, and 'Four Percent' (DOK Leipzig 2025), a VR documentary examining the evolving role of touch in virtual spaces. Her VR experience Control Negative, an immersive work transforming disorientation into a tool for personal reflection, premiered at DOK Leipzig 2022. https://monikamaslon.art/

    director
    Four Percent
    Monika Masłoń, portret gościa
  • AMI Minars

  • Marianna Mrozek

    She was born in 2003 in Częstochowa. She is a graduate of the State Secondary School of Fine Arts and the Community Ballet School. She is currently studying Animated Film and Special Effects at the Łódź Film School. She has been interested in animation, and puppet animation in particular, from a very young age. In 2023, for her first short puppet animation, “Kto pod kim dołki kopie, ten sam w nie wpada”, she received honours from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and the National Review of Graduation Works by Art School Graduates. At the Łódź Film School, she created two further stop-motion films, “Article 134 of the Labour Code” and “Will Marek Go Out into the Garden?”, for which she received the “Silver Tobołek” award at the O!PLA National Animation Festival. The film was also screened during the Night of Animated Films at the National Museum in Warsaw and as part of the “Fights in Cages” programme at the Animator International Animated Film Festival.

    director
    Frankie the Rabbit’s Final Preparations
    Marianna Mrozek, portret gościa
  • Mateusz Mularski

    Documentary filmmaker, photographer and reporter. Author of projects carried out in Poland and abroad. In his work, he combines artistic endeavours with commissions from international institutions. Co-founder of the HumanDOC festival, with whom he has been associated for many years as an artistic selector. As a reporter, he has worked with TVN Discovery Historia, and has also produced numerous documentaries for various TVP channels. For many years, he also worked for the Kraków-based ‘Kontrapunkt’ Documentary and Reportage Studio, producing material both in Poland and abroad. A graduate in social sciences from the University of Szczecin and in political science from the University of Bradford in the UK. He completed a documentary course at the Wajda School, a cinematography course at the Krakow Film Academy, and the Krakow Screenwriting School. Winner of the “Rozwój w Obiektywie” competition.

    director
    Notes From a Besieged City
    Mateusz Mularski, portret gościa
  • Maciek Nabrdalik

    A documentary photographer who has won numerous awards, including from World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International. Author of the books 'The Irreversible', 'Homesick' and 'OUT'. He has been working with The New York Times for many years, and in 2017 he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He lectures in photojournalism at the Łódź Film School. He is a member of Press Club Polska and the Association of Polish Art Photographers. As a cinematographer, his credits include titles such as ‘Eat Up’, ‘What Do You Feel?’, ‘Beyond the Swamp’ and ‘The Stringer’ (premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival).

    director
    Tickling the Devil
    Maciek Nabrdalik, portret gościa
  • Kristine Nrecaj

  • Mehrdad Oskouei

    An Iranian filmmaker, producer, photographer and researcher born in Tehran in 1969. He graduated in film direction from the University of Arts. His films have been screened at numerous festivals both at home and abroad to great critical acclaim, making him one of the major Iranian documentary makers. In 2010 he received the Dutch Prince Claus Award for his achievements. He is a founding member of the Institute of Anthropology and Culture as well as being a cultural ambassador for the United Nation's humanitarian committee UCHA. For his latest documentary, “Sunless Shadows” Mehrdad received the jury award for the best directing at IDFA 2019 and ar Krakow Film Festival 2020.

    director
    A Fox Under a Pink Moon
    Mehrdad Oskouei, portret gościa
  • Valentin Paoli

    Writer and director. He is an author of two award-winning short films, 'La Recette du Pain Perdu' (20 selections in France and Italy, Argentina, Greece) and 'Un Loup pour l'Homme', short documentary filmed up close to wolves in the Alps. He wrote the screenplay for 'Minuit Sur 96.8 FM' directed by Alexandre Castagnetti, starring Sylvie Testud, Pablo Pauly and Gustave Kervern, and participated in writing 'Transatlantic' for Netflix. Valentin works as a screenplay consultant for companies such as StudioCanal, Charades, Pomme Productions. 'The Musician and the Whale' is the first feature film.

    director
    The Musician and the Whale
    Valentin Paoli, portret gościa
  • Julia Pełka

    Director, cinematographer, and producer, graduate of the Łódź Film School. The premiere of her film 'Gruba Kaśka' at Hot Docs established her position as a documentary filmmaker, earning critical acclaim and audience recognition. She creates auteur documentary cinema with a formal, minimalist approach, searching for visual metaphors that transcend literalness. Her films explore the relationship between humans and nature, moving away from hierarchical perspectives. Her style is marked by visual sensitivity, subtlety, and attentive observation of both subjects and protagonists. Her cinema consistently raises questions about humanity’s place in the world rather than offering straightforward answers.

    director
    Woodeaters
    Julia Pełka, portret gościa
  • Katrine Philp

    An Emmy-nominated director who graduated as a documentary film director from the National Film School of Denmark in 2009. She holds a bachelor’s degree in film production design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her documentary, Beautiful Something Left Behind, won the SXSW 2020 Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award and the UNICEF Prize in Japan 2020. MTV Studios acquired the North American rights. In 2014, Katrine won the Audience Award at the American Documentary Film Festival for her debut feature-length documentary, Dance for Me.

    director
    Where Music Grows
    Katrine Philp, portret gościa
  • Yann Rehberg

    Born in 1998. He discovered filmmaking after moving to Berlin at 17. Before studying directing at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (2021), he worked on international sets, toured with a Belarusian orchestra, and funded early films through commercial work. His work explores self-deception and the subjectivity of truth, themes central to his graduation film, Eyes won’t see (rbb-movies), which premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival. Currently, he is developing his debut feature film and working on becoming a halfway decent Durak player.

    director
    Eyes Won‘t See
    Yann Rehberg, portret gościa
  • João Niza Ribeiro

    Born in 1987. He studied Cinema at Porto’s UCP School of Arts where he finished his Master’s degree in Directing, over the contours of the Absurd in the Cinematic Language. His final Film, The Damned Manifesto, won the School Competition at Fantasporto International Film Festival, and awarded the Take One! prize at Curtas de Vila do Conde International Film Fest.

    director
    Asphalt Reds
    João Niza Ribeiro, portret gościa
  • Jay Rosenblatt

    An internationally recognized artist and a two-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker who has completed over thirty-five films. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. Jay’s films have screened throughout the world. A selection of his films had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

    director
    How Do You Measure A Year? / The Darkness of Day / When We Were Bullies
    Jay Rosenblatt, portret gościa
  • Logi Sigursveinsson

    He studied screenwriting and directing at the Icelandic Film School. In 2018 his graduation film 'Bjarnarblús' won best film at Northern Wave Film Festival in Iceland. Logi works freelance as a cinematographer, editor and vfx artist.

    director
    The Home Game
    Logi Sigursveinsson, portret gościa
  • Wojciech Sobczyk

    director
    Autumn 2026
    Wojciech Sobczyk, portret gościa
  • Nadim Suleiman

    Graduate of the Film and Television Directing Department at the Łódź Film School. His films have been screened at festivals in Poland and abroad. He has worked in directing departments on productions such as 'Children’s Republic' by Jan Jakub Kolski, 'Bread and Salt' by Damian Kocur, 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' by Francis Lawrence, 'Green Border' by Agnieszka Holland, and 'Freedom at Midnight' by Nikkhil Advani. In 2020, he co-founded Palmyra Films, producer of documentaries including 'I Am One of Them' (WIP) and 'Dollar or Egyptian Pound?' (premiered at Kurzfilm Fes'tival Hamburg 2021).

    director
    A Short Film about War
    Nadim Suleiman, portret gościa
  • Filip Szela

    A student of film directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School, holder of a Master’s degree in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from the Jagiellonian University, and a cultural manager. A graduate of the ‘Pierwszy Film’ documentary course organised by the Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation.

    director
    Little Green Plots
    Filip Szela, portret gościa
  • Birthe Templin

    Birthe Templin, portret gościa
  • Michał Toczek

    A graduate in film directing from the Łódź Film School. Director of the films 'A Dead Marriage' and 'Be Somebody. His films have won over 60 awards and honours in Poland and abroad, including in Kraków, Palm Springs, Brussels and Brno.

    director
    Spiritus Sanctus
    Michał Toczek, portret gościa
  • Oliver Mark Toth

    A journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has worked for Hungarian and German media outlets as a video journalist. His work has been recognized with the Hégető Honorka Award for his socially conscious reporting. He has been making documentaries since 2017, focusing on rebellious characters. In 2022, he began shooting his first feature documentary, Meant to Be, which premiered in Hungary as a docu-series titled What Would Mom Say.

    director
    Meant to Be
    Oliver Mark Toth, portret gościa
  • Madis Tüür

  • Karol Ulman

    Graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School. Born and raised in Katowice, he currently lives and works in Warsaw. His short films 'Mały koniec świata' and 'Nie ma spokoju' have been screened at numerous film festivals in Poland and abroad.

    director
    Ghosts
    Karol Ulman, portret gościa
  • Karolina Walas

    An artist specialising in animation, graphic design and illustration. She grew up in Dobczyce, a small town by a lake. In 2025, she graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, completing her Master’s degree with the animated film 'Pearl Against the Sun'. She took part, among other things, in the “Korona i Państwo” project – an animation created to mark the 1000th anniversary of the Crown of Poland, projected onto the walls of Wawel Castle.

    director
    Pearl Against the Sun
    Karolina Walas, portret gościa
  • Filip Wieczorek

    A third-year directing student at the Warsaw Film School. Graduate in Mechatronics (Multimedia Technologies) from the Warsaw University of Technology and participant of the MDAG Industry workshops led by Niels Pagh Andersen. He has worked in directing departments on feature films, music videos, and commercials. Currently developing his debut feature-length documentary. Curiosity about the world, other people, and the language of cinema remains at the centre of his work.

    director
    Half-Baked
    Filip Wieczorek, portret gościa
  • Isa Willinger

    An award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her documentary feature Hi, AI – Love Stories from the Future was nominated for the German Film Award for Best Documentary and it won the Max Ophüls Award. In 2020, Isa was awarded the SISTAR film prize for outstanding female directors. Her follow-up film Plastic Fantastic on an environmental crisis also had a theatrical release in Germany. It received the German Documentary Film Award/Audience Award, the Graine d’Or at FIFES in Cannes, the Ocean Alliance Award and others as it was screened at numerous film festivals around the globe. Isa studied documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich and she holds an MA in Slavic studies, American studies and sociology. In 2013, she published the result of her academic research about Ukrainian director Kira Muratova in the book Kira Muratova – Kino und Subversion.

    director
    No Mercy
    Isa Willinger, portret gościa
  • Katarzyna Wiśniowska

    Graduate in Film Production from Manchester Metropolitan University and Directing from the Łódź Film School. Her student films have been screened at festivals such as Flickers’ Rhode Island, Premiers Plans d’Angers, and Kaohsiung Film Festival. She has worked as an assistant director on feature films and TV series including 'Chopin, Chopin!' (2025), 'Scarborn' (2024), 'The In-Laws' (2021), and 'Family Games' (2022). As a director, she created the second season of the series Not Me. She is also co-creator of the Canal+ Poland fiction series 'When’s the Wedding?'.

    director
    Guard Up!
    Katarzyna Wiśniowska, portret gościa
  • Tomasz Wolski

    Director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. A graduate of Journalism at the Jagiellonian University and the Documentary Course at the Wajda School (2003). Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP), Polish Academy of Film (PAF), and European Film Academy (EFA). Since 2024, he has also served on the Polish Film Institute (PISF) Council. His feature-length documentary 1970 was screened at over 50 international festivals worldwide and received numerous awards (Visions du Réel, Krakow Film Festival, Zagrebdox, Festival Film Dokumenter, Batumi International Art House Film Festival). He also edited Sergei Loznitsa’s films Babi Yar. Context and The Kiev Trial, as well as Anna Gawlita’s Krzyżoki.

    director
    How To Conquer the World
    Tomasz Wolski, portret gościa
  • Jin Woo

    An animator and VJ based in Krakow. Since 2012, she has been actively creating uncanny and poetic hand-drawn animations rooted in human relationships and traditions, alongside live performances and animated music videos. Her films have been selected for competition screenings at major international film festivals, including Annecy, Ottawa, Zagreb, Slamdance, and the London Short Film Festival. Her animated music videos have won awards at Anifilm, Anibar, and Supertoon, and her films have also been recognised at festivals such as the Delhi ISFF and Corticonici ISFF.

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    Kkogdu
    Jin Woo, portret gościa
  • Joanna Zielińska

  • Paulina Ziółkowska

    A graduate of the Łódź Film School in animation and special effects, she is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Arts and Design – UNAM. In 2017, she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding achievements. Her films 'Oh, Mother!' (2017), 'Bless You!' (2018), '3 GeNarracje' (2021) and 'Tears' (2025) have won numerous awards at national and international festivals. They have been screened at festivals such as the Berlinale, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, ITFS, Cinanima, AnimaFest Zagreb, OIAF, Ann Arbor and KFF.

    director
    Procrastination Yoga
    Paulina Ziółkowska, portret gościa
  • Vita Żelakeviciute