Olga Chajdas

Olga Chajdas is a theatre and film director. She made her debut in theatre in 2008 with a performance of Tuvia Tenenbom’s Last Jew in Europe in Teatr Na Woli. For television she directed e.g. the world-acclaimed Głęboka woda or the series The Border, which won an Eagle Award, and Netflix series 1983 or Cracow Monsters. She made the award-winning short films 3xLOVE and Morning Has Broken. Her cinema feature-length debut, Nina, received awards incl. the Grand Prix VPRO Big Screen at the 2018 IFF Rotterdam. And the Grand Prix of the Polish Films Competition at the 2018 International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage. She was nominated for the 2018 Polityka Passports. In 2023 her film, Imago, had its premiere at the Karlovy Vary IFF. It received the FIPRESCI Prize and won the Silver Lions at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. Chajdas is the executive producer of the first Polish feature film production Erotica 2022 and the series Kabul for France TV. She co-produced the Golda Tencer documentary. She is a board member of the Directors’ Guild of Poland, a member of the Polish Film Academy and the European Film Academy.