She graduated in direction from the Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia. A scriptwriter and a film and theatre director, she holds a PhD in film art. She has made seven documentaries. The first one, Dziewczyny z Szymanowa, won the Bronze Lajkonik at the All-Polish Short and Documentary Films Festival in Krakow. Franciszkanski spontan won the Jury’s Honourable Prize at the Review of Documentary Forms, while Przybysze – the Grand Prix of the Euroshorts’99 Festival. For several years now, she has been making films abroad. First, it was Znaleźć, pochować, a film on women in Bosnia that wait for news about their close ones after the war, then Piemonte – a story of a town on the isle of Istria that has only one citizen, and recently Chicago – a documentary series for TVN. She became famous after Pręgi, produced on the basis of a script by Wojciech Kuczok.
Poland