2006
Helsinki Human Rights Foundation Award for lifetime achievement, Warsaw
2004
Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize, Berlin
The First Warsaw Jewish Film
Grand Prix
2002
AFO Documentary Achievement Award, Olomouc
Born in Paris in 1940. Graduate of Film Directing Department in the National School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz (1971). In 1994, nominated for the American Academy Award and for the European Film Academy Award for the documentary – “89 mm from Europe“. Since 1995, member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science awarding Oscars. Lectured at FEMIS film school and the School of Polish Culture of the Warsaw University; ran documentary film workshops in Marseilles. Currently lectures at Andrzej Wajda’s Master School for Film Directors. Runs Dragon Forum – the international documentary film workshops in the middle of Europe.
2008 | Poste Restante | |
2007 | If It Happens | |
2006 | How Is It Done – Main Prize Go East, Wiesbaden 2007 |
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2001 | I Remember – Christopher Award 2003 Festival |
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1998 | So It Doesn’t Hurt – Special Prize of Jury Estonia, 1998 |
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– Goldene Taube – Leipzig | ||
– Don Quixote – Leipzig 1998 | ||
– Prize TV Film Bornholm 1998 | ||
1995 | Poland After Victory 89 – 95 | |
1995 | Anything Can Happen (40′) | |
– Prize IFFS Oberhausen 1995 | ||
– Prize of the Kultusministerium of Nordrhein-Westfallen, Oberhausen 1995 | ||
– Prize of the Catholic Jury, Oberhausen 1995 | ||
– 1st Filmprize and Kodak Award, Bornholm 1995 | ||
– Grand Prix and FIPRESCI, Krakow 1995 | ||
– Golden Spire, San Francisco 1996 | ||
– Award For Best Documentary – World Television Festival Japan 1997 | ||
1993 | 89 mm from Europe (12′) | |
– Oscar Nomination 1994 | ||
– Main Prize Oberhausen 1993 | ||
– Prize IFFS Oberhausen 1993 | ||
– Special Prize Jean D’Arcy, Marseille 1993 | ||
– 1st Prize For Documentary, Vila Do Conde 1993, Portugal | ||
– Grand Prix Leipzig 1993 | ||
– IG Medien Prize, Leipzig 1993 | ||
– Jury Special Prize, Clermont-Ferrand 1994 | ||
– Montreal (Quebec) – Grand Prix 1994 | ||
– IDA Award 95 | ||
1992 | Seven Jews From My Class (50′) | |
1990 | Katyn-Forrest (52′) | |
– Silver Sesterce, Nyon 1990 | ||
– Prix Europa, Reykjavik 1991 | ||
1989 | 45-89 (4 x 52′) | |
– INPUT Edmonton 1990 | ||
1988 | Witnesses (26′) | |
– Grand Prix Solidarite Clandestine | ||
– INPUT Stockholm 1989 | ||
1985 | My Place (17′) | |
– FIPRESCI Award At the Krakow Film Festival, 1985 | ||
1984 | Practice Exercises (17′) | |
– Grand Prix Solidarite Clandenstine 1985 | ||
1980 | Microphone’s Test (17′) | |
– 1st Prize, FIPRESCI and 1st Prize For Screenplay, Cracow 1981 | ||
1978 | Matriculation (17′) | |
– Main Prize Krakow 1981 | ||
1977 | How to Live (110′) | |
– Grand Prix Koszalin 1981 | ||
1976 | Front Collision (12′) | |
– Grand Prix Krakow 1976 | ||
1975 | The King (7′) | |
– Grand Prix Rzeszow 1978 | ||
1974 | The Visit (17′) | |
– FIPRESCI Krakow 1974 | ||
1973 | Happy End (17′, with Pawel Kedzierski) | |
1972 | Wheel of Fortune (20′) | |
– FIPRESCI Oberhausen 1973 |