Agnieszka Smoczyńska (; born 18 May 1978) is a Polish film and television writer and director. She is an
alumnus
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for grou ...
of the
Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School
The Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School (also known as ''Katowice Film School'') is a polish film and television school established in 1978 and based in Katowice, Poland. It is a full-time film school and offers MA courses in Directing, Cinematogra ...
in
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
. Her debut
feature film, ''
The Lure'' (2015), was re-released by
The Criterion Collection in 2017, also including the
short films
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
''Aria Diva'' (2007) and ''Viva Maria!'' (2010). In 2022, she won Golden Lions Award at the
Gdynia Film Festival for her 4th feature, ''
The Silent Twins
June Gibbons (born 11 April 1963) and Jennifer Gibbons (11 April 1963 – 9 March 1993) were identical twins who grew up in Wales. They became known as "The Silent Twins", since they only communicated with each other. They wrote works of ficti ...
.''
Filmography
Feature films
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School alumni
Polish women film directors
Sundance Film Festival award winners