Agnieszka Holland

Graduate of FAMU in Prague, she began her career alongside Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi. Winner of such prestigious awards as: the Golden Globe, the Golden Lion, BAFTA and Emmy. Nominated for the Academy Award three times. 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 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. 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 part of the selections at Berlin IFF, won numerous festival awards and were distributed in many territories around the world.