Joanna Kos-Krauze

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 Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017) by herself, because her husband passed away during the making of the film.

Filmography

(selection, all co-dir) Plac Zbawiciela/Saviour Square (2006), Papusza (2013), Ptaki śpiewają w Kigali/Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017)

More info: Wikipedia, Joanna Kos-Krauze

Joanna Kos-Krauze at IFFR

My Nikifor

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.

Krzysztof Krauze

100'
Poland

IFFR 2006

Papusza

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.

Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze

131'
Poland

IFFR 2014

Birds Are Singing in Kigali

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.