Paweł Pawlikowski

Born in Warsaw. He left Poland at the age of 14. He lived in London, Germany and Italy and studied literature and philosophy at universities in London and Oxford. He has been making films since 1987.

LUCIFER OVER LANCASHIRE (doc 1987)
EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES (1988)
VACLAV HAVEL (doc 1989)
FROM MOSCOW TO PIETUSHKI (doc 1990)
EMMY INTERNATIONAL
PRIX ITALIA
CANADIAN ‘ROCKY’ at Banff
ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY
DOSTOEVSKY’S TRAVELS (doc 1991)
ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY special mention
CANADIAN ‘ROCKY’ at Banff
PRIX ITALIA
SERBIAN EPICS (doc 1992)
GRAN PRIX, Documentary Film Festival Marseille
GRAN PRIX, Festival dei Popoli, Florence
THE GRAVE CASE OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN (short, 1993)
TRIPPING WITH ZHIRINOVSKY (doc 1995)
GRIERSON AWARD, Best British Documentary 1995
GOLDEN GATE AWARD, San Francisco Film Festival
THE STRINGER (Russian-language feature, 1997)
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT, Cannes ‘98
Montreal Film Festival ‘98
TWOCKERS (medium length drama, co-written and directed with Ian Duncan,1998
London Film Festival ’98, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival ’98,
Krakow Film Festival’99, Input ‘98
LAST RESORT (feature film, written and directed, 2000)
BAFTA Best Newcomer 2001
BEST FILM Edinburgh Film Festival
BEST FILM Thessaloniki Film Festival
BEST FILM Gijon Film Festival Spain
BEST FILM Motovun Festival, Croatia
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS Discovery Prize nominated
BEST DIRECTOR ‘Heimat’ award by German Ministry of Culture, 2001
FIPRESCI PRIZE Thessaloniki, London Film Festivals
BEST ACTRESS Thessaloniki and Gijon
BEST ACTOR Thessaloniki
SCREENED AT Venice, Toronto, Sundance, Moscow, Rotterdam, Toronto,
Karlove Vary, Sofia
MY SUMMER OF LOVE (feature film, written and directed, 2004)
BEST FILM Edinburgh Film Festival 2004
BAFTA Best British Film 2005
BEST SCREENPLAY Evening Standard Awards 2005
BEST DIRECTOR Directors’ Guild of Great Britain 2005
BEST NEW ACTORS Evening Standard Awards 2005
BEST FILM, BEST ACTOR Cabourg Film Festival, France 2005
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS (nominated) Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor,
Best Photography
BEST FOREIGN FILM Polish Film Academy 2006
BEST FILM Oslo Film Festival
SCREENINGS Toronto, London, Thessaloniki, Rotterdam, Berlin, Sofia,
THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH (feature film, written and directed,
release late 2011)
RETROSPECTIVES San Francisco 1995, La Rochelle 2005, Bradford 2005,
Buenos Aires 2007, Gijon 2007, London Riverside 2008