Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland graduated from the FAMU in Prague and began her film career alongside Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi. She won such prestigious awards as the Golden Globe, Golden Lion, BAFTA and Emmy. She’s a three-times Oscar-nominee. She received the Platinum Lions for career achievement at the 2021 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. She directed over thirty feature and television films. She also directed episodes of several 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 wrote and co-wrote her own and other directors’ films. Her 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, while her latest film Green Border won the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice IFF and the Golden Lions at the 2024 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. In the years 2021-2024 she was the President of the European Film Academy.