Olga Chajdas

Olga Chajdas is a theatre and film director. She made her debut in theatre in 2008 with a performance of Tuvia Tenenbom’sLast Jew in Europe in Teatr Na Woli. In the following years she directed Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, an adaptation of Mariusz Szczygieł’s book – Make Your Own Paradise and Marsha Norman’s ‘night, Mother. For television she directed e.g. the world-acclaimed Głębokawoda or the series The Border, which won an Eagle Award, and Netflix series 1983 or Cracow Monsters. She made short films 3xLOVE (Grand Prix at the 2016 Short Film Festival Oddalenia– Distances in Dublin) and Morning Has Broken (Best Directing at the Oakland Short Film Festival and an award in the independent film category at the Polish Independent Film Festival in Konin). 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 the film category. 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.