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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

All Inclusive
2024
Writer, Producer, Director
"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...
2024
Producer, Writer, Director
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
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
2022
Executive Producer, Director
One woman's journey for self-discovery and turns into a harrowing tale of survival.
Talking Heads 2021
2021
as Self
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
2021
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2020
Director
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
2020
Director, Writer
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
2018
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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
2015
Screenplay, Producer, Director
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...
2013
Director, Co-Producer, Writer
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
2011
Director, Writer, Co-Producer
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
2010
Co-Producer
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
2009
Co-Producer
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
2008
Director, Writer, Co-Producer
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
Solidarność, Solidarność...
2005
Director, Writer
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
2004
Director, Writer
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
2004
Director, Writer, Producer
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Happy Man
2000
Director, Writer
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
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
1998
Director, Writer
A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.
Jeden dzień z życia Tomka Karata
1997
Director
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
Student film by Małgorzata Szumowska.
Dokument...
N/A
Director, Screenplay
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
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...