- directed by
- Monika Anna Kotecka
Cinematographer, director and photographer. A graduate in Photography from the European Academy of Photography in Warsaw and in Cinematography from the Łódź Film School. Her films have been screened at festivals such as Cannes, the Berlinale, Sundance, BFI London, Visions du Réel and IDFA. She has worked across various forms of video art – from music videos and commercials to feature films – on both Polish and international projects. Over the years, she has developed a distinctive visual narrative style, particularly in documentary filmmaking, focusing on intimate observation of her subjects, which is a defining feature of her visual language. Her short film 'Wolta', which won an award at the 2017 Hot Docs festival, was nominated for the Silver Eye Award at the East Silver Market, and has been screened at over 50 festivals worldwide, is currently part of the Op-Docs collection on The New York Times platform and was the first Polish documentary to be nominated for the American Cinema Eye Honors award. Her feature-length documentary 'Herd' premiered at the 37th Warsaw Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award, and was also selected for the competition at the Visions du Réel festival. She is a co-creator (co-director, cinematography) of Karolina Lucyna Domagalska’s feature-length debut 'You Are Not Alone' (2024), which has won awards and been screened at numerous festivals worldwide.
- cinematography
- Monika Anna Kotecka
- script
- Beata Bartecka, Monika Anna Kotecka
- music
- Aleksandra Kotecka
- sound
- Franek Kozłowski
- editing
- Mateusz Romaszkan
- production
- Marta Szymanowska
- Photo

