Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland is a graduate of FAMU in Prague and began her career alongside Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi. She won such prestigious awards as: the Golden Globe, the Golden Lion, BAFTA and Emmy. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award. She received the Platinum Lions award for career achievement at the 2021 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. Holland directed over thirty feature and television films. She is also the director of several episodes of TV series made both in Poland (Ekipa, 1983) and in the USA (incl. The Wire, Treme, The Killing, House of Cards), and mini-series Burning Bush and Rosemary’s Baby. She is the author and co-author of screenplays of her own films and those made by other directors. Her latest feature films: Spoor, Mr. Jones and Charlatan were selected for the Berlin IFF, won numerous festival awards and were distributed in many territories around the world. She was the President of the European Film Academy.