Małgorzata Szumowska

Małgorzata Szumowska

1973-02-26 Krakow, Poland 26 Credits

Biography

Małgorzata Szumowska is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer. Her film "In the Name Of " (2013) received the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, and received the Grand Prix at the 32nd annual Istanbul Film Festival.

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All Inclusive

All Inclusive

2024

Writer, Producer, Director

Writing Producing Directing

"All Inclusive" tells the story of seven women who are going on holidays to Morocco, getting out of the hotel and confronting women from Morocco. They...

Woman of...

Woman of...

2024

Producer, Writer, Director

6.8
Producing Writing Directing

Aniela has lived the first half of her life as a man: with an office job, a wife, and two children. But neither her family's opposition nor repression...

Dispatch from Przemyśl (Notes for a Democratic Europe)

2022

Producer

Producing

February 24, 2022: Russian troops are flooding into Ukraine. After the initial shock, how do you respond? For Marine Hugonnier, it was by using her ow...

Infinite Storm

Infinite Storm

2022

Executive Producer, Director

5.7
Producing Directing

One woman's journey for self-discovery and turns into a harrowing tale of survival.

Talking Heads 2021

2021

as Self

1.0
Acting

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocut...

Never Gonna Snow Again

Never Gonna Snow Again

2021

Director, Writer, Producer

6.3
Directing Writing Producing

Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-clas...

The Other Lamb

The Other Lamb

2020

Director

5.7
Directing

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she l...

Nightwalk

Nightwalk

2020

Director, Writer

4.3
Directing Writing

It is night in Warsaw. Two very different homes. In one, a father watches sports lying on the sofa, expecting the son to do the same. In another apart...

Mug

Mug

2018

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads ...

Body

Body

2015

Screenplay, Producer, Director

6.2
Writing Producing Directing

A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to ...

In the Name of...

In the Name of...

2013

Director, Co-Producer, Writer

7.0
Directing Producing Writing

The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregati...

Elles

Elles

2011

Director, Writer, Co-Producer

5.3
Directing Writing Producing

A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tu...

The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man

The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man

2010

Co-Producer

5.2
Producing

A famous Danish artist and fashion photographer who leads an eventful life and is always travelling, meets a man who immediately awakens strong feelin...

Antichrist

Antichrist

2009

Co-Producer

6.6
Producing

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course...

33 Scenes from Life

33 Scenes from Life

2008

Director, Writer, Co-Producer

5.1
Directing Writing Producing

The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomac...

A czego tu się bać?

2007

Screenplay, Director

Writing Directing

Solidarność, Solidarność...

2005

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various form...

Stranger

Stranger

2004

Director, Writer

3.7
Directing Writing

A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in ...

Visions of Europe

Visions of Europe

2004

Director, Writer, Producer

4.9
Directing Writing Producing

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Happy Man

2000

Director, Writer

5.3
Directing Writing

The story of three people and their complicated emotional relationship. A mother and her 30-year-old son live in a poor neighborhood in a big city. Sh...

Ascension

2000

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

A mysterious guest comes to the inhabitants of one of the tenement houses in the country of the former Eastern bloc and sends money from heaven. The a...

Silence

Silence

1998

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.

Jeden dzień z życia Tomka Karata

1997

Director

Directing

A documentary portrait of a generation in the form of a story about young businessmen. Malgorzata Szumowska portrays Poles who find themselves perfect...

Zanim zniknę

1996

Director

Directing

Student film by Małgorzata Szumowska.

Dokument...

N/A

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

When Malgorzata Szumowska was an elementary school student, she had a diary in which her friends, acquaintances and loved ones wrote in. Now she has a...

The Idiots

N/A

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russ...