Q&As

28.05—4.06.2023

  • Job Antoni

    Job Antoni grew up in The Hague, where he chose a career in music at an early age. He studied jazz drums at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, after which he moved to Berlin to work as a musician. Inspired by his mother and siblings, he started to take his film ideas more seriously. He has been studying film at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, (DFFB), where he made many short films such as "Mudhole". With his latest project "Common ground" he was selected for the Les Arc Talent Village in 2022.

    director
    Mudhole
    Portret gościa

  • Aia Asé

    producer
    Goodbye My Wonderful World

  • Gunhild Asting

    director of photography
    Budding Humans

  • Hanna Badziaka

    Hanna Badziaka is a filmmaker with a background in journalism. She graduated with a Master's degree in Philology from the Belarusian State University. She began her career as a video journalist for independent online media and later worked for the only independent TV channel in Belarus. She then participated in creating several documentaries and worked as a director and scriptwriter for TV projects focused on short documentaries. Motherland, which she co-directs, is her feature documentary debut.

    director
    Motherland
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  • Anton Baibakov

    sound
    Signs of War

  • Jean-Baptiste Bonnet

    Graduated in photography, Jean-Baptiste Bonnet has been the cinematographer of a dozen creative documentaries broadcast by Arte & France Télévisions, among others. In 2018 he directed Zones, a short fiction film broadcast and awarded in several festivals. In 2021, he produced and directed Here lions once roared, a documentary broadcast by France Televisions, and acclaimed by the critics. He is now working both as a director and producer, at the head of the French company Habilis Productions.

    director
    Here Lions Once Roared
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  • Elena Rebeca Carini

    Elena Rebeca Carini was born in 1990 in Romania. She grew up in Piacenza in Emilia-Romagna and studied in Milan, Rome and abroad. She graduated in Visual Arts at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and in Cinematographic Art at the Rome University of Fine Arts, where she realized several short films. "The Land You Belong" is her directorial debut.

    director
    The Land You Belong
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  • Jon Bang Carlsen

    Jon Bang Carlsen was born in 1950 in Denmark. He graduated from the Danish Film School in 1976, and has since written and directed more than forty films - both documentaries and feature films. Jon Bang Carlsen’s signature hybrid style combines documentary and fictional interpretations, and many of his documentaries are visually and symbolically powerful, often staged portraits of marginal figures and milieus.

    director
    Dreaming Arizona
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  • Barbara Caspar

    producer
    Signs of War

  • Una Celma

    Born in 1960 in Latvia. She finished University of Latvia, Film and Television Directing Program, Film Institute of Moscow. Directed feature films and documentaries.

    director
    Girls of 1960
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  • Simon Chambers

    Simon Chambers was a Youth Worker in London for 14 years working with disadvantaged teenagers. In 2004 he won the RTS award for best European Student Doc. In 2006 his first feature doc 'Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears' was shown on BBC Storyville, and on TV in around 30 countries, winning several awards. In 2009 his feature doc 'Cowboys in India' also won several prizes and screened on TV in UK, USA and India. His short fiction 'Playing Dead' was at Cannes in 2010. He has taught at the NFTS in the UK and at Jamia Millia Islamic university in New Delhi, and made films for Oxfam.

    director
    Much Ado about Dying
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  • Maja Costa

    Maja Costa is a multilingual screenwriter/director. After studying Cello and getting an MA in Ancient Near Eastern Studies/Egyptology, she studied Screenwriting at the DFFB in Berlin and attended the international showrunner incubator Serial Eyes as a scholarship holder from SKY Italia. She is currently developing original series for different production companies and broadcasters and co-adapting the novel “E.E.” by Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk into a feature-length film.

    director
    Mångata
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  • Bren Cukier

    Before moving to Poland in 2020, Cukier spent 5 years in NYC working as a director/editor after attending Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. Focused on telling nuanced stories in a visually striking way, her work combines documentary and narrative filmmaking with her experience in fashion and art photography. Cukier's work is rooted in her belief that sharing individual stories can impact the lives of many. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

    director
    Thursday
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  • Puk Damsgaard

    Puk Damsgård was born in 1978 in Denmark. She is a journalist and has been DR's Middle East correspondent since 2011. She has written the bestsellers "Arabica" (2020), "The Black Cat in Mosul" (2017), "ISIS Hostage" (2015) and "Where the Sun Weeps" (2014) as well as "Wolf Hearts" (2011) and "The Land of the Pure" (2009). For "ISIS Hostage" she received, among other things, Danish journalism's most prestigious award, the Cavling prize in 2015. The book has been sold to over 20 countries.

    director
    The Hostage Takers
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  • Michael Dudok de Wit

    Michael Dudok de Wit (1953) was born and received education in the Netherlands. He went to university in Geneva, Barcelona and Farnham in the UK, where he directed his first film, ‘The Interview’. Since 1980 he has lived in London. He has directed and animated many award-winning productions for the commercial sector and television. In 1992 he created the short film ‘Tom Sweep’ followed by an Oscar-nominee and César Award winner, ‘The Monk and the Fish’. His most famous short film ‘Father and Daughter’ was honoured with a Grand Prix in Annecy, the Academy Award, BAFTA, a Grand Prix of Animafest in Zagreb and many other distinctions. It was also screened and awarded at the Krakow Film Festival. In 2006 de Wit directed ‘The Aroma of Tea’, a short film made using exclusively tea. His most recent work is ‘The Red Turtle’, a feature film coproduced by world-famous Studio Ghibli from Japan. It was nominated to the Academy Awards (2017) and won Un Certain Regard, a special award of Cannes festival, among many other honours. Additionally, Michael Dudok de Wit illustrates books and teaches master classes on animation, creativity and related topics at artistic schools and universities in the UK and abroad.

    director
    Father and Daughter / The Aroma of Tea / The Interview / The Monk and the Fish / The Red Turtle / Tom Sweep
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  • Nina Đukanović

    Graduated economist, creative director and co-founder of Creative Studio "Košnica", CEO of NGO "Dobar život"; yoga teacher, fighter for a good life for hers and all other children. Coauthor of the first Montenegrin animated band for children - "Donkeys". Coauthor of the monograph "Kickouts" that illustrates the speech of a local community in Montenegro. Coauthor of the socially engaged project "Girls with marbles", which aims to point out the value of girls. "Son!" is her directorial, acting and dramaturgical debut.

    director
    Son!
    Portret gościa

  • Miguel Eek

    Born in Madrid in 1982 and raised between Mallorca, Stockholm and Barcelona. Graduated in Documentary Filmmaking at the Cinema School of Catalonia. He is Alumni of the trainings EURODOC. His works have been selected and awarded in more than 50 festivals all over the world like IDFA, Malaga, Docaviv, Full Frame or Doc Edge. Since 2019 he’s the artistic director of MajorDocs film festival.

    director
    The First Woman
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  • Jon Mikel Fernandez Elorz

    Jon Mikel Fernandez Elorz (San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, 1983) is a journalist, Basque teacher, translator and fisherman. Today he teaches Basque at AEK and regularly collaborates with certain Basque media. Bi arnas is his first film.

    director
    Two Breaths
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  • Laurine Estrade

    director
    Here Lions Once Roared
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  • Andrzej Fidyk

    Screenwriter and director of more than 40 documentaries, winner of dozens of film festivals. For many years head of the Documentary Department in TVP1. Three-time winner of the Wiktor award in the category of television creator. He ended his cooperation with TVP in 2016. Professor of the art of filmmaking. Head of the Directing Department at the Film School in Katowice. Member of the Polish Film Academy and the European Film Academy.

    director
    Battu’s Bioscope / Reed Dance / The Russian Striptease
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  • Aniela Gabryel

    Film director. She graduated from the Theatre studies at the Jagiellonian University and film directing at the Lodz Film School. Her films have been screened and awarded at many festivals in Poland and around the world. Her feature-length documentary "When This Wind Will Stop" has been shown and appreciated at many film festivals, and also received an award at the IDFA festival in 2016. Currently, the director is finishing work on her feature debut and is embarking on other film projects.

    director
    Radical Move
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  • Igor Gavva

    Igor Gavva was born in 1987 in Moldova. He got a professional education at Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts in Ukraine. He performed as a circus artist at international festivals, television and circus shows. Having finished his career as an artist, Igor turned to film directing. In 2022, together with a team of students and independent filmmakers, he created his short film « Shreds », which was shot three days before the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine.

    director
    Shreds
    Portret gościa

  • Claudius Gentinetta

    He was born in 1968 in Lucerne. Studied graphic design and animation in Lucerne, Liverpool, Kassel and Krakow. He is working as freelance graphic artist and animator in Zurich.

    director
    Think Something Nice
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  • Júlia Girós

    Born in Barcelona in 1992. Documentary filmmaker, photographer and VideoJockey (VJ). She studies cinema at ESCAC and specializes in documentary. She also studied Documentary Bases at the London Film Academy and the Postgraduate Course in Cultural Management of Festivals and Shows at the UB. She has founded the Mambo Project, an audiovisual artistic collective that explores different disciplines from a documentary perspective. She has directed the documentaries Ayiti Cheri is her final degree project, a documentary short filmed in Haiti, selected at the Docs Barcelona - DocU Festival, Film and Human Rights Film Festival of Valencia, K&O Digital Solidarity Film Festival and winner of the Barcelona Visual Sound Festival; La Passió segons to Pep Amores, selected at the Bcn Film Fest; and The Time After the Rain, currently in distribution. Now she is working on the documentary No ni ná, about a community in Barcelona who lived in shacks at the 80s. She has participated in the team of documentaries such as La Nova Escola, a Nanouk Films and TVC production, selected at DocsBarcelona and broadcast on television. In photographic format, she has created, among other projects: Mohamed, portrait winner of the second prize in the Signo Editores Fotografía 2016 contest, portrait category; From Caboalles de Arriba, a photographic series selected at the Photogenic Festival 2018 and winner of the Stripart Festival 2019. Currently, he is a resident artist at the Fabra i Coats creating live visuals for the music group Ominira.

    director
    The Time after the Rain
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  • Liat Glick

    Liat Glick graduated in 1995 from the prestigious Nissan Nativ Acting Studio in Tel Aviv. During her acting studies. Liat acted in film & theatre and has been nominated for the Israeli Academy Award and Theatre Academy Awards for her work. In 2011 she graduated with honors from the Minshar School of Art Film Department and finished her graduation film “Layla Bahir”. The film was accepted to the Berlin film Festival and many others. In 2020 she directed “Sugar Crash” which was accepted to the St. Louis Film Festival and other acclaimed festivals.

    director
    Clinging
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  • Marek Głuszczak

    Film and radio director, graduate of the Gdynia Film School and the Wajda School. His graduation film "CLOSU2U" was awarded at numerous festivals in Poland and around the world. He is currently working on a feature-length music documentary, produced by Koi Studio. In addition to directing films and radio plays, he is also involved in voiceover recordings and dubbing. He is interested in cultural anthropology and computer games. He loves crazy cinema in the style of Edgar Wright and the Daniels duo.

    director
    Free Cow
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  • Maria Görlich-Opyd

    Maria Görlich-Opyd was born in 1981 in Cracow, Poland. Graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prof. Jerzy Kucia's Animated Film Studio. Her film debut was the movie "Haiku".

    director
    The Sleeplessness of Jutka
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  • Jessica Gorter

    Jessica Gorter is a Dutch documentary filmmaker. She studied directing and editing at the Dutch Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. As a teenager she lived for several years in the United States and after completing her studies, she worked and traveled in Russia for a longer period of time. Her experience of these different worlds, fueled by her passion for photography, forms an important basis for her further work. Her award-winning films are screened worldwide at film festivals and universities, theatrically released and broadcasted internationally. Her films have been shown at many different film festivals and broadcasted in various different countries. She also directed tv-programs for Dutch television (Human, VPRO) and worked as an editor for various documentaries. Her documentary ‘900 Days’ (2011), was awarded best Dutch film at IDFA 2011.

    director
    The Dmitriev Affair
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  • Zvika Gregory Portnoy

    Zvika Gregory Portnoy was born in 1980. Graduated in photography from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2007, Jerusalem) and from the Department of Cinematography and Directing at Sam Spiegel School for Cinema (2011, Jerusalem), Scholarship recipient of the American-Israeli Foundation. Member of the Israeli Association of Photographers. Author of photographic and video-art exhibitions (including "A moment before leaving" in Jerusalem, "Israeli beauty" in Tel Aviv) and photographs for numerous shorts and graduate feature films and documentaries. Since 2011, he has been living and working in Poland. During this period he directed the short documentary film "No Reason to Leave" presented in the Documentary ART competition of T-Mobile New Horizons in 2012. He was the cinematographer of the award-winning Polish and international film "15 Pages of the World" directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz. The documentary film "Dramas" is his feature-length debut. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association in the "Young Circle".

    director
    Good News
    Portret gościa

  • Sławomir Grünberg

    director
    Lodz Kaliska: Classic Artists of the Absurd
    Portret gościa

  • Paweł Hejbudzki

    Director, screenwriter. Graduate of film directing at the Warsaw Film School. In 2006, his short documentary "State of Mind" won the Creative Valley Competition and the Grand Prix of the Summer of Films in Torun. In 2015, his graduation film, the short feature "Charon," won the Grand Prix of the 40th Gdynia Film Festival for the best film school etude. In 2020, he made his full-length film debut with "Say Yes or No" (2020), which premiered at the 17th Millenium Docs Against Gravity in the Polish Film Competition. The premiere of his latest documentary film titled. "Wiraż" will take place at the 63rd Krakow Film Festival in the Polish Film Competition.

    director
    Early Apex
    Portret gościa

  • Hanna Hovitie

    Hanna Hovitie was born in 1991. She is a film director and artist from Helsinki, Finland. She has a background (BA) in Cinematography and Editing and she holds an MA of Arts in Documentary Directing. Her filmic work ranges from fiction to documentary to media art, exploring different possibilities to go beyond genre borders and stretch the boundaries of narrative. Hanna’s films have been screened and awarded at numerous international film festivals such as DOK Leipzig, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

    director
    Square the Circle
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  • Jonathan Howard

    script
    Happy Ending

  • Lu Huang

    actor
    Like Wave Like Cloud

  • Magda Hueckel

    director
    The Old
    Portret gościa

  • Michał Hytroś

    Born in 1994 in Krakow. Graduate of directing at the K. Kieslowski Film School in Katowice and of dramatic acting at the A. Zelwerowicz Theater Academy in Warsaw. Author of short documentary and feature films, awarded at Polish and foreign festivals.

    director
    It's Only/Not Only A Body... Or A Short Film About Freedom
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  • Paulina Ibek

    She was born in 1986 in Cracow. She is a graduate of political science at the KEN Pedagogical University in Krakow and Russian philology at Jagiellonian University. In 2020 she completed the DOK PRO documentary directing course at the Wajda School in Warsaw. On a daily basis, she works with the Cracow branch of Polish Television, where she creates various forms (documentaries, reports, television programs).

    director
    I'll Come to You Tomorrow
    Portret gościa

  • Simon Intihar

    Simon Intihar is a writer, director and producer from Slovenia. Simon Graduated Film/TV directing at UL AGRFT and has directed several short films such as ‘Kopanje (Diving-In)’ (2014), ‘Nisi Pozabil (You Didn’t Forget)’ (2016) and his upcoming Slovenian Film Centre funded short ‘Container’ (2023). His work has been screened at film festivals around the world, including Cucalorus FF, Motovun FF, ZOOM-Zblizenia FF, CinEast Film Festival, SEE Film Festival LA, Tirana FF, Jagran FF etc., winning numerous awards. He attended Talents Sarajevo as a director in 2017 and Berlinale Talents in 2019.

    director
    Line Rider
    Portret gościa

  • Ricardo Íscar

    Ricardo Íscar holds a degree in law and is graduated from the Berlin film school DFFB. He has directed documentaries that reflect his interest in portraying human relations, ethnographic content and poetic value. He is also a lecturer in different Spanish universities. Main filmography Dreamed and Lived (Lo soñado y lo vivido). 2020. 43 min The last fair (La Última Feria). 2016. 34 min The Pit (El Foso). 2012 .110 min Dance to the Spirits (Danza a los Espíritus). 2009. 80 min Loneliness (Soledad). 2008. 25 min The Fence (El Cerco). 2006. 13 min Black Earth (Tierra Negra). 2004. 90 min

    director
    Air
    Portret gościa

  • Fábio Zilberman Iuchno

    Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1994, he studied history, sociology, and filmmaking. At the age of 22, he moved to Jerusalem to continue his filmmaking studies and began working as a Director of Photography. While learning the local language and culture, he started to develop a passion for observation.

    director
    Before Bedtime
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  • Goran Ivanović

    Computer engineer, specialist in design and computer animation (2D/3D). Co-owner, CEO and Director of animation of Creative Studio ”Košnica”. Father. Coauthor of the first Montenegrin animated band for children - "Donkeys". Coauthor of the monograph "Kickouts" that illustrates the speech of a local community in Montenegro. Coauthor of the socially engaged project "Girls with marbles", which aims to point out the value of girls. "Son!" is his directorial debut and solo performance of drawing and animation.

    director
    Son!
    Portret gościa

  • Łukasz Iwanicz

    Born in Warsaw. Third-year student of Film Directing at the Warsaw Film School. He made his debut with a short documentary film “7 words about passing away” at the 62nd Krakow Film Festival. He's interested in reportage photography.

    director
    Cataract
    Portret gościa

  • Agnieszka Iwańska

    Journalist, co-author and host of radio and television programs on TVP2, CANAL+, TV4, RMF FM, Polsat News, Radio WaWa, Radio Station. Lecturer, legal counselor, commentator. Graduate of the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration. She completed a documentary course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. She hosted the TV cultural magazine "Sztukateria", "Jazda kulturalna" and "Rozmowy niepolityczne". She is the author of the monodrama "Life is not a sin" based on Urszula Dudziak's autobiography. Since 2005 she has been a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw. The film "Ula" is her directorial debut.

    director
    Ula
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  • Dariusz Janiczak

    A special educator by profession, he works at school with people with intellectual disabilities. He started his adventure with filmmaking by creating short amateur films awarded at various festivals in Poland. He also uses film in his pedagogical work, organising film workshops for children and young people and film therapy classes for people with disabilities. Co-founder of the nationwide FilmON Film Festival for People with Disabilities. He is also one of the producers of the Nowa Huta Film Chronicle. "Who will clean your windows?" is his first professional documentary film.

    director
    Who Will Clean Your Windows?
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  • Joo Joostberens

    Joo Joostberens is a Film Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Motion Graphic Editor and Scriptwriter. He is a postgraduate student at the Warsaw Film School, MA Directing Programme. He started out as a creator of advertising films and reports for international TV stations. He co-created a documentary about the Gdańsk Shipyard "Gdańsk Shipyard". He is also Director of Photography of Polish-French-American production "I am Max" (2022), a documentary about the first international movie star - Max Linder. The documentary "Goodbye My Wonderful World" (2023) is the Director's debut movie.

    director
    Goodbye My Wonderful World
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  • Sascha Just

    Sascha Just is a New York-based filmmaker, born and raised in Berlin. She emigrated to the US to make films about jazz and jazz-related topics. Prior to "Ellis", Sascha produced/directed "Heirs/Big Chief", a feature-length documentary about three New Orleans artists and the short documentary "Ambassadors" about the Jazz Ambassadors competition. Sascha's films screened a.o. at the American Documentary Film Festival, the Katra Film Series, and the Segal Film Festival. "Ambassadors" was finalist for best short documentary at the Queens World Film Festival.

    director
    Ellis
    Portret gościa

  • Lino Kafidas

    Lino Kafidas was born in 1993. He studied at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, Belgium. He is writer and director of the short film “A Family Story” (with which he won several international festivals nominations and a Golden First Time Filmmaker award at LVGFA Galaxy Las Vegas Film Festival). In 2020 he completed (together with Dimitris Kafidas) the medium length documentary “Spiros and the Circle of Death” which won several awards in Greece and also in international festivals.

    director
    Hotel Centaur
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  • Matyas Kalman

    Matyas Kalman graduated as a media designer from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. He has worked as a video journalist and Head of Video for major Hungarian news portals, Index.hu and 24.hu. In 2017 and 2022 he was a guest lecturer at ELTE University Department of Media and Communication, teaching creative documentary and video journalism. Currently, he runs his own production company, COLLOC Productions.

    director
    Paying a Visit to Fortuna
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  • Piotr Krzysztof Kamiński

    Student of film directing at the Warsaw Film School, graduate of Media Cultures at the University of Silesia. Author of prize-winning short films, winner of Żurawie Award 2017 for Best Picture, Art System foundation’s administration’s member.

    director
    Ballad of Kychiev
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  • Kacper Kiniorski

    Kacper Kiniorski was born in 2001 in Kielce. He was brought up in two environments, the artist-avant-garde on the part of his parents and the “real” world among his peers. In May 2020 he entered the Warsaw Film School where he continues his education to this day creating avant-garde productions and wandering dreamy through the school corridors.

    director
    Kinior
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  • Clara Kleininger-Wanik

    Filmmaker and anthropologist. Born in Bucharest. Graduated in visual anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in Manchester. She is a graduate of the Dok Pro program at the Wajda School in Warsaw. Several of her short documentaries have been screened at international festivals, and her short film "Everyday Greyness" premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020. Clara is a graduate of IDFA Summer School and Sarajevo Talents, and teaches documentary film and anthropology at Opole University.

    director
    No Elephant in the Room
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  • Søren Klovborg

    Søren Klovborg is a producer, scriptwriter and commissioning editor of documentaries. In depth investigation include award winning Organs for Sale (2004), Victim No. 72 and The Surrogate Scam. He has worked on many films as a consultant.

    director
    The Hostage Takers
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  • Jacek Knopp

    Director and cinematographer of documentary films, editor and colour corrector. He graduated from Cinematography Department at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Cinematographer of documentary and feature films as well as TV theatre.

    director
    On the Edge - Witold K.
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  • Kinga Kociarz

    Kinga Kociarz is a Krakow-based artist. She is currently studying painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She took up animation creation at the Animated Film Workshop, a free-choice program she has participated in for several years. Her works deal with themes of childhood, often difficult, home and relationships within the family.

    director
    Home
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  • Małgorzata Kozera

    Film director and screenwriter. She studied at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the UW, and then at the Department of Directing at the National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz. She has made a number of short films presented at festivals worldwide. In 2014, she made her feature-length debut, "Był bunt" (produced by Vision House, in co-production with Al Jazeera Documentary and TVP Kultura) - the story of the largest prison revolt in post-war European history, which took place in Poland in 1989. The film was awarded Newsweek's Teresa Toranska Award in the category "Best journalistic material. The film "Faces of Agata" is her feature-length debut.

    director
    Faces of Agata
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  • Maria Krauss

    producer
    Faces of Agata

  • Elvira Krithari

    Elvira Krithari is a journalist. In 2017, she attends the Summer Investigative Reporting Course at Columbia University in New York with a scholarship, and afterwards co-founds the Mediterranean Institute for Investigative Reporting. In 2020 she receives BIRN's Fellowship of Journalistic Excellence, in the context of which she publishes a report on the booming ivf industry in Greece that precedes the movie "Mommies". Since 2020, she works for the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), as a news reporter and crisis correspondent. The documentary "Mommies" is her first film.

    director
    Mommies
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  • Agnieszka Kruczek

    Director of animation, commercials, music videos and also video installations. She is a graduate of the Hochschule Hannover for Multimedia Design and the Film Academy Ludwigsburg for Animation. Scholarship holder at the Berlinale Talents and the European Animation Exchange Forum.To her credit, she has worked with television stations: ARTE, ZDF, 3SAT, PRO 7, many production and advertising agencies. Her video installations have been shown in museum exhibitions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She produced the children's app "Lucy&Pogo" with cats´n´dogz, of which she is also a partner. "Lucy&Pogo" was based on Pawel Pawlak's book "The Cat Who Wagged His Tail." The app won the Golden Award at the Digital Ehon Awards in Tokyo (2017) and was nominated at the Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award.

    director
    Her Own Truth
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  • Kaupo Kruusiauk

    Film director and screenwriter Kaupo Kruusiauk has graduated from the Baltic Film and Media School as a film director, and he has a stage director diploma from the Estonian Theatre and Music Academy. He has also studied film directing a semester in FAMU in Prague. Filmography: Champion (short, 2005), Player (doc, 2008), Souls Night (short, 2009), Last Pronce (doc, 2018), Hunter (short doc, 2020), Grass (short doc, 2021), Sandra Gets a Job (feature, 2021)

    director
    Machina Faust
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  • Maciej Kubicki

    producer
    Pianoforte

  • Maks Kubiś

    script
    Two Shores

  • Jerzy Kucia

    Animated film director, graphic artist and painter born in 1942. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, he debuted with The Return (1972). His films have been screened and awarded at international film festivals. Since 1981 he has been the head of the Animated Film Studio at Krakow’s Academy of Fine Arts. Kucia has lectured and held workshops at London, Munster, Vancouver, Mumbai and Lisbon. In 1985-2000 he was ASIFA’s board member.

    protagonist
    Between Picture and Sound. Jerzy Kucia

  • María Guzmán Ligorit

    producer
    El Drogas

  • Mikael Lypinski

    Director, cinematographer. Born and raised in Stockholm. He graduated from the Directing Department of the Polish National Film School in Lodz. "Unpaved" is his feature-length documentary debut. Shot in the desert in California, the documentary "Desert Coffee" premiered at KFF 2017, and won the Grand Prix at the "Man in Danger" festival in Lodz, Poland, and a jury's honorable mention at "DocsMX" in Mexico. Mikael is currently editing the documentary "The End of Quiet," shot in West Virginia, USA. The film is co-financed by the Danish and Swedish film institutes.

    director
    Unpaved
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  • Gunhild Westhagen Magnor

    Award-winning director and cinematographer Gunhild Westhagen Magnor’s main focus is human relation documentaries. She studied film at The Surrey Institute of Art and Design.Her feature documentary, ,,The Optimists", won several awardsand achievednational and international success (Nordisk Panorama: Audience Award 2014, The AOK Award, The Norwegian International Film Festival: The Ray of Sunshine, Best Feature-length Documentary, among others)

    director
    Budding Humans
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  • Aram Manukian

    producer
    250 km

  • Rebecca Mark-Lawson

    producer
    My Blonde GF

  • Alexander Mihalkovich

    Alexander Mihalkovich is Belarusian-Ukrainian director and producer. He graduated with a PhD in Library Science and an MA in Film Directing at DocNomads international study program. His focus as a filmmaker is on long-term projects towards which he feels a close personal relationship. He produces documentaries with an experimental and creative background, beautiful cinematography, and a clear director’s vision.

    director
    Motherland
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  • Kuba Mikurda

    Film director & film scholar. He has worked as a film critic, journalist and publisher. In 2018, he made his film debut, a feature-length documentary „Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk,” and in 2021 „Escape to the Silver Globe,” which won three awards at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival, an award from the Polish Filmmakers Association at the Man in Danger festival, and was nominated for the Polish Film Award Eagles 2022 in the categories of best documentary and best editing. He teaches at the Film School in Łódź & hosts the podcast „Director’s Cut”.

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    Solaris Mon Amour
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  • Magdalena Mistygacz

    She was born in 1993. She graduated from Journalism and Social Communication. She studied at the Pontifical University in Krakow, Jagiellonian University and Texas State University in San Marcos. In her work she focuses on the perspective of the ordinary person, and finds universal content in simple stories. She has gained experience working for Polish Television, the Associated Press, as well as numerous charitable organizations, including the Refugee and Migrant Education Network and the World Food Organization.

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    Iriy
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  • Rosie Morris

    Rosie graduated from the National Film and Television School in February 2020. Empathy, conversation, and collaboration are at the heart of her process. She prioritises intimacy and emotion to make films that are grounded in everyday experience, but psychologically complex and emotionally charged. In 2020, her film "Heart, eyes and a world" was part of the Official Selection at Aesthetica Short Film Festival and a finalist in the 16 Days and 16 Films competition, hosted by Modern Films and the Kering Foundation.

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    My Blonde GF
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  • Margreth Olin

    Margreth Olin (1970) is a director and producer with a large cinema audience in Norway. She has made 13 films, which have received critical acclaim, participated at numerous festivals abroad, and won several Norwegian and international awards. Margreth has managed to catalyze important dialogues with the topics her films shed light on. She has personally received 26 honorary awards for her commitment and focus on human rights. Her new feature length documentary Songs of Earth (2023), this film is coproduced by BBC and SWR in cooperation with ARTE. Wim Wenders and Liv Ullmann are Executive Producers.

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    Songs of Earth
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  • William Sabourin O´Reilly

    Born in Havana, Cuba 1972, William Sabourin O’Reilly moved to New Orleans in 2000 to attend the College of Fine Arts. During Katrina in 2005, William produced and edited his nationally recognized short film "Old Orleans". Much of the footage he captured during the storm and its aftermath has been broadcast internationally and used in various documentaries; The History Channel, Spike Lee’s, "When The Levees Broke", among others. He also won a National Geographic Special Emmy Award for the documentary Witness Katrina. Sabourin has also worked as a cinematographer on shows for HBO, PBS and Telemundo. In 2011, William won an award for Best Documentary Short at the New Orleans Film Festival for his film "Chasing Dreams". In 2015, he wrote and directed "Color Code, Memories" a documentary about race relations in his native Cuba.

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    Lazaro and the Shark. Cuba under the Surface
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  • Lev Orlov

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    Before Bedtime

  • Jakub Orłoś

    producer
    Iriy

  • Enis Ozkul

    producer
    The Syrian Cosmonaut

  • Anna Pachnicka

    producer
    God Is Born

  • Bartosz Paduch

    Born in 1979 in Gdańsk. He is a graduate of directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice, as well as the Studio Prób and SCRIPT courses at the Wajda School and the Script Atelier. His latest film 'Fantastic Matt Parey' completes a trilogy telling the story of a generation who experienced the system transformation while living in a socialist state. Bartosz Paduch's previous films 'Totart or Recovering Reason' and 'Skandal. Ewenement Molesty' portrayed the experiences of younger generations.

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    Fantastic Matt Parey
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  • Natasza Parzymies

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    My Old Gals
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  • Barbara Pawłowska

    producer
    My Old Gals

  • Jakub Piątek

    Born in 1985. He studied Culture at the University of Warsaw and graduated from Film Directing at the Film School in Łódź. He is associated with the Wajda School (Polish-German project Reflection). As an artistic supervisor, he has collaborated on documentary miniatures as part of the following projects: Videonotacje, Polska.doc and the Film Kindergarten. His short film debut "Mother" (2009) has been screened at almost 50 international film festivals and won several awards. Currently, he is working on the project "A Film for My Mom".

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    Pianoforte
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  • Pol Picas

    Born in Barcelona in 1992. He graduated at ESCAC (Superior School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia) and specialized in documentary. He has worked as director, editor, sound engineer and filmmaker in various productions in ESCAC films, Nanouk Films, Anou Audiovisuals, among others. In 2017 he co-founded Mambo Project, an audiovisual colective that explores the documentary perspective. He has co-directed the full-length documentaries “La passió segons Pep Amores” (Morris Films, 2021) and “El tiempo después de la lluvia” (Alhena Films, 2022).

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    The Time after the Rain
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  • Mateusz Pietrak

    A graduate of DOK PRO documentary course at Wajda School. He is finishing his diploma thesis in philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He was professionally connected for several years with the Iluzjon Cinema and the National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute.

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    Basia: Three Short Stories
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  • Maria Pisarek

    Television journalist, screenwriter and documentary film director. Graduate of Theatre Studies at the Faculty of Polish Philology of the Jagiellonian University. Since 1995 she has worked for TVP Kraków, making cyclical television programmes and documentaries for TVP3, TVP Polonia, TVP Historia.

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    Between Picture and Sound. Jerzy Kucia
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  • Pol De Plecker

    Pol De Plecker was born in 1995 in Leuven, Belgium. He has a masters degree in film from KASK, School of Arts, Ghent. ‘Noisetrain’ is his masters graduation project.

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    Noisetrain
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  • Izabela Plucińska

    Animation film director Born in Poland, she currently lives in Germany. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (in the field of Design) and Film Animation from the Cinematography Department of the Film School in Łódź, where she also earned her PhD in Animation. Her filmography includes "Jam Session" (2005) – a winner of the Silver Bear at the International Film Festival in Berlin, "Esterhazy" (2009), "Sexy Laundry" (2015) and "Portrait of Suzanne" (2019). At present, she is a lecturer at the Arts Academy in Szczecin and runs her own production company ClayTraces. She specialises in plasticine animation. "98 kg" was her first animation film.

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    Outside
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  • Tomek Popakul

    He was born in 1986. He is a graduate of the Department of Animation Films and Film Special Effects at the Lodz Film School. At the same time, he has been studied scriptwriting for one year. He is an author of several films, of which his graduated animation "Ziegenort" was presented at many international festivals and won numerous awards around the world. He took part in the Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo, residency program organised by Japan Image Council (JAPIC), where he made his previous film "Black". His next film, "Acid Rain," brought him 35 awards and an Annie Awards nomination.

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    Zima
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  • Omar Al Abdul Razzak

    Canarian filmmaker trained in Madrid, Paris, and Montreal. Berlinale Talents 2017 and Biennale College 2017 alumni. Torino Film Lab Up&Coming 2018. He has produced more than 10 films. He has directed the documentaries "Paradiso" (2014) and "La Tempestad Calmada" (2016) and the short film "Los Espacios confinados" (2019). "La Prima Cosa", his latest animated documentary short film, has had its world premiere at Annecy International Film Festival 2021.

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    The Biological Invasions. The Case of Ovis Orientalis Musimon on the Island of Tenerife: « The Last Mouflon»
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  • Sandra Reina

    Sandra Reina was born in 1988 in Barcelona. She is a Catalan film director. She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University. She started her career as a producer assistant, developing projects for Inicia Films, La Lupa Produccions or About a Bicycle Prod., and then became assistant director for feature films like ‘Lluc Sky Walker’ by Jaume Fargas, ‘One day I saw 10.000 elephants’ by Juan Pajares and Àlex Guimerà, or ‘Unicorns’ by Àlex Lora, and TV series as ‘Oh my goig’ and short films as ‘The Inner Code’ by Pau Subirós.

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    The Bus
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  • Charles Emir Richards

    Charles Emir Richards was born in San Francisco to a Turkish mother and American father growing up between both countries. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design with honors in film. He has been working on documentary projects including “No One”, the award winning story of a Syrian sniper that utilizes traditional Turkish shadow puppets. “The Syrian Cosmonaut” is his latest documentary effort that combines interviews with documentary footage with Turkish miniature art.

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    The Syrian Cosmonaut
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  • Ewa Rodart

    Actress, director, screenwriter and visual artist. She graduated from the acting department of the William Esper Studio in New York from 2015 to 2017, and has performed in film and theater in Poland, Germany and the US. She is also involved in visual arts. She studied collage and painting in New York under the tutelage of abstract painter Judith Godwin. Before moving to the US, she taught Latin American literature at the University of Warsaw and worked at the consulting firm EY. She holds degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Spanish Philology. "Two Shores" is her directorial debut.

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    Two Shores
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  • Sławomir Rogowski

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    Description Found Years Later
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  • Olivia Rosa

    Visual artist and director of animated films. Graduate of the graphic design department of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. Most often she works with animated film, sculpture, illustration and photography, but is constantly trying to find herself in new artistic mediaInspiration comes from observation of nature and a feeling of restlessness that comes from high sensitivity to stimuli. She is currently a member of the Szaber gallery/collective.

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    Smell of the Ground
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  • Szymon Ruczyński

    Szymon Ruczyński was born in Hajnówka, Poland, in 2000. Currently student of an Animated Film and Special Effects department at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. He grew up in Bialowieza, a village in the centre of the ancient Bialowieza Forest which is the source of inspiration for his award-winning films "Reason" and "The Wildwood Diptych". In 2021 and 2022 Szymon participated in bringing humanitarian aid to the refugees hiding in the forest. He uses mixed animation techniques to tell stories about socially relevant problems he witnesses.

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    There Are People in the Forest
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  • Mariusz Rusiński

    Graduate of the Wajda School and Screenwriting at the PWSFTviT in Lodz. He is currently a student of Directing at the Lodz Film School. His debut film "Julia by the Sea" premiered at the 60th Krakow Film Festival and was screened at many other festivals, including the New Horizons IFF and the Parnu Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Jan Machulski Award in the best documentary category. Currently, Mariusz Rusiński is developing his full-length feature film as part of the "Screenwriting Atelier" screenwriting course, and is also working on a short feature at the Film School in Lodz.

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    Sister of Mine
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  • Andrzej Sapija

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    Natalia LL - Art is like Love
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  • Maria Sidiropoulou

    Maria Sidiropoulou is a producer and director of short documentaries, based in Athens. She enjoys experimenting with visual storytelling while exploring topics of gender as well as anthropology and human rights violations. She has worked as a researcher and field producer for Greek and international documentary platforms and media. The film “Girlhood", an Onassis Culture production, she co-directed, was a coming of age story about sexism and consent. Mommies is her second attempt to approach other aspects of (not strictly) womanhood. Maria is the proud owner of four cats.

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    Mommies
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  • Moritz Siebert

    After studying medicine and cultural anthropology in Berlin, Moritz Siebert studied film at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK. He lives and works as a filmmaker and medical doctor in Berlin.

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    Worldheritage - the Palace and its Fortress
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  • Agnieszka Skalska

    producer
    Radical Move

  • Wiktor Skrzynecki

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    Mieczysław Jahoda. Wizard from Krakow
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  • Dimitra Sofroniou

    composer
    Hotel Centaur

  • Zuzanna Solakiewicz

    Film director and screenwriter. She is a graduate of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Wrocław. In 2005-2009 she stayed in Israel where in 2008 she studied at the Sam Spiegel Film and TV School in Jerusalem. She continued her education on an internship at the Film School in Łódź. She has participated in the following film workshops: the Berlinale Talent Campus, the New Horizons Studio, EAVE, the Jerusalem Film Lab and ScripTeast. In 2019 she completed her feature course Studio Prób at the Wajda School. Her film "15 Corners of the World" (2014) has been awarded at the prestigious festival in Locarno.

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    Good News
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  • Bartek Stankiewicz

    director
    Polar Bears

  • Karol Starnawski

    Director of documentary films. Graduate of directing at the PWSFTviT in Lodz. For the past two years, he has been a doctoral student and lecturer cooperating with the Lodz Film School. Participant and winner of film festivals in Poland and Europe. The premiere screening of his documentary feature debut "Shadows of the Empire" took place at the 59th Krakow Film Festival, and won the audience award at the "Man in Danger" festival in Lodz. In 2022, the feature script "Two Mothers" co-authored by Starnawski won the main prize in the "Script Pro" competition (together with Anna Dembowska). "Grandfather's Orchard" is the second feature-length documentary film in the director's oeuvre.

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    Grandpa's Orchard
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  • Sönje Storm

    Sönje Storm lives and works in Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She holds an M.A. degree in history of science and German literature from Humboldt University Berlin. She has worked as a tv producer for Deutsche Welle documentaries and as a reporter for DER SPIEGEL and 3sat tv. "Fakes in the Art World" (45 min, 2016, DW/SRF/RBB) has been broadcast internationally. "Dead Birds Flying High" is her first feature documentary.

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    Dead Birds Flying High
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  • Jakub Stoszek

    director
    Iriy
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  • Matt Subieta

    Mateusz Subieta studied at the Wajda School and the Academy of Film, Theatre and Television in Sydney. In the past, he worked as a creative director at animation studios, including the New York branch of Platige Image. He is a guest lecturer at universities in Poland and the US. He is responsible for the film layer of the World War II Museum exhibition in Gdansk. As a writer and director, he has produced documentary series for CANAL+, Discovery and the History Channel. His first short film, The Tourist, was screened as part of the Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival. He is currently developing his debut feature film.

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    Two Shores
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  • Ola Szmida

    Cartoonist, illustrator and director of animated films. Born in 1987, she studied animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and the KHM in Cologne. Her animated films have been shown and awarded at many international exhibitions and festivals (e.g. Seville European Film Festival, Anilogue, Animafest, Mecal). She has collaborated, among others, with : BBC, Boiler Room, Southbank Centre. Winner (together with Wanda Hagedorn) of the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw for her comic strip 'Face, Belly, Head'.

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    Medusas
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  • Tomasz Śliwiński

    Director and screenwriter. His short documentary film 'Our Curse' (2013) won numerous awards at film festivals around the world and was nominated for an Oscar in 2015. He graduated in film directing from the Warsaw Film School as well as from the Studio Prób Feature Programme at the Wajda School. Winner of the MInistry of Culture "Young Poland" Scholarship Programme (2015) and the Warsaw City Scholarship (2019). Member of the Guild of Polish Documentary Directors.

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    The Old
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  • Kimi Takesue

    Award-winning film director and recipient of numerous scholarships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship. Her documentaries have been presented both at prestigious museums and numerous international film festivals, such as Sundance, Locarno, Rotterdam, SXSW, Los Angeles, Mar del Plata, CPH:DOX and DocLisboa, winning many awards. At present, she works as a professor at the Department of Art, Culture and Media at Rutgers University in Newark.

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    Onlookers
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  • Julian Tałandziewicz

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    Belay
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  • Michał Toczek

    Film director born in 1996. He is a student of Film and Television Directing at the Film School in Łódź. His short films have been awarded at home and abroad, including a distinction from the Krakow Film Festival for his documentary debut Strawberry Boys. He is a winner of the Papaya Young Directors 2021 competition. His film , "Dead Marriage," won the Silver Hobby-Horse at the 2022 Krakow Film Festival.

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    Be Somebody
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  • Shira Ukrainitz

    Shira Ukrainitz was born in 1990. She is an animation film director and an illustrator from Tel-Aviv, living and working in the Canary Islands, Spain. Her first short film, a French-Spanish co-production, "Confined Spaces" (2019), was premiered in the official section of DocAviv and Seminci, and has gone through more than 20 festivals around the world. "La Prima Cosa", her latest animated documentary short film, has had its world premiere at Annecy International Film Festival 2021.

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    The Biological Invasions. The Case of Ovis Orientalis Musimon on the Island of Tenerife: « The Last Mouflon»
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  • Anna Urbańczyk

    Anna Urbańczyk was born in 1984 in Bytom. She holds a degree in art and cultural history from the Faculty of History at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. She received a scholarship to the Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia at the University of Ferrara, studying theater and classical drama. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Association of Polish Filmmakers. In 2019, she graduated in film directing from the Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School in Katowice, Poland.

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    End of Natalka's World

  • Maria Wider

    .A graduate of psychology at the Jagiellonian University, directing at the Gdynia Film School and the Wajda School. Her short films "In Me" (2019) and "Goose" (2021) have won a number of awards at festivals. She is currently working on her feature-length debut, which has received funding from the Polish Film Institute for the development of the project.

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    Old Summer
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  • Pola Włodarczyk

    Pola Wlodarczyk was born in 1999 in Lodz, Poland. She is currently studying Animated Film and Special Effects at the Film School in Lodz.

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    I Know You’re Afraid Too
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  • Yulin Yang

    Yulin Yang is a director and screenwriter from China, who graduated from NYU Tisch. He aims to make films that poetically reflect real human conditions, especially the feelings and the emotions often unspoken of, in which a truer reality may dwell.

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    Like Wave Like Cloud
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  • Élodie Yung

    "Happy Ending" is Elodie Yung’s directorial debut. Elodie has made her career as an actress. She has a degree in Law and trained at the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)

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    Happy Ending
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  • Aleksander Zalewski

    Film director, screenwriter and producer. Studied directing at the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia in Katowice, as well as history and cultural studies at the University of Warsaw. Creator of the author's documentary series titled "Sports Clubs of the Capital". Director and producer of a documentary film about a Polish-Syrian family titled "Civil War" (2023). Author of the screenplay of the feature film "Hlaskower" about Marek Hlaska (together with Arkadiusz Biedrzycki) and the dramatic texts of "Queen of Snow" and "Meeting in Stockholm". Co-founder of the film production company Consigliere Film Studio. Recipient of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for the Dissemination of Culture in the field of film in 2023.

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    War at Home
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  • Paloma Zapata

    Director, editor and producer, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master in Creative Documentary. In 2008 she founded her production company in Barcelona, La Fábrica Naranja. For more than a decade she developed a trajectory as an international music video and music documentary director.

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    La Singla
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  • Stanisław Zawiśliński

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    Description Found Years Later
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  • Andrei Zinca

    producer
    Who I Am Not

  • Agnieszka Zwiefka

    Director of documentary features such as: "Scars" (2020) and "Queen of Silence" (2014), which premiered at IDFA 2014, nad was awarded, among others, with a Silver Horn in Kraków Film Festival 2015. It was in "Queen of Silence" that we saw a combination of an obsevational documentary and a musical for the first time. This original film language became the basis for creating the story about DJ Vika. Currently, Agnieszka is working on another documentary, "Runa", about a young girl-refugee, and on her fiction debut.

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    Vika!
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