Katarzyna (Kasia) Klimkiewicz has been working as a director in Poland, UK, Germany, Israel and Chile. She is a member of the European Film Academy and an expert in Polish Film Institute. Graduated from the Polish Film School in Lodz and alumni of the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam, since 2000 she has collaborated with Polish National Television on many projects, including her documentary, Krystian Lupa’s Labyrinth. Her documentary Wasserschlacht – The Great Border Battle, co-directed with Andrew Friedman, was awarded Berlin Today Award during Berlinale 2007. Her short film Hanoi-Warszawa won Best Short of 2010 by the European Film Academy and received many awards in Poland and internationally.
Her debut feature film Flying Blind (2012 ) was nominated for the prestigious Michael Powell Award in Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it was premiered, and received three Awards (Grand Prix, Best Director, Critics Award) at the Polish Festival of First Films in Koszalin. In 2013 she co-directed an experimental short La Isla commissioned by the Danish Festival CPH:DOX and shot in Chile. The film premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2014 where it received the Tiger Award for the best Short Film. She also works for TV directing TV series.
