Joanna KOS-KRAUZE (1972, Poland) is filmmaker and screenwriter. She regularly collaborates with her husband Krzysztof Krauze. The body of work of the spouses is characterised by a humanist approach and respect for the protagonists in their films. The couple has received over 120 awards for their films worldwide. Joanna Kos-Krauze finished <strong>Birds Are Singing in Kigali</strong>&nbsp;(2017) by herself, because her husband passed away during the making of the film.<br />

Joanna Kos-Krauze

Krzysztof Krauze

Painstaking, poignant portrait of two women thrown together after the Rwandan genocide of 1994: Polish academic Anna and young Rwandan refugee Claudine. The two try to build a new life in Poland. Winner of (shared) best-actress award in Karlovy Vary and Chicago.

IFFR 2018

Voices

Birds Are Singing in Kigali, 

Birds Are Singing in Kigali

Nikifor was a Polish naive painter, here played by the fantastic eight-year-old Theatre actress (!) Feldman. The prize-winning film describes his adventures in the last years of his life, in communist Poland in the 1960s when Nikifor meets the would-be painter and apparatchik Wlosinsksi, who recognises his genius.

IFFR 2006

My Nikifor, 

Vita Brevis

My Nikifor

Biopic about the rise and fall of Papusza, the most famous Roma poet ever. Her discovery by Jerzy Ficowski made her a literary sensation, although she was accused of betraying her own community. She died destitute, lonely and almost insane.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Joanna Kos-Krauze

Filmography

Joanna Kos-Krauze at IFFR

My Nikifor

Papusza

Birds Are Singing in Kigali