Shorts Competition juror.
Director and screenwriter. She graduated in directing from the Lodz Film School, and then she wandered around the world. She was a scholarship holder of the Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam, she made films in Berlin, Israel, Great Britain, Chile.
She used to like leaving Poland, now she likes coming back.
Her short film debut 'Hanoi - Warsaw' won many awards in Poland and abroad, and the European Film Academy named it Best Short Film of 2010.
She made her full-length film debut in the UK with ‘Flying Blind’. The film premiered at the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Film, and at the Koszalin Film Debut Festival it received the Grand Prix of the Great Jantar, the Directing Award and the Journalists' Award. This film entered cinemas in the UK and Poland in spring 2013. Her last film 'La Isla' won the Grand Prize in the Short Film Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in February 2014 and the Grand Prix at the Huesca Festival in June 2014. Her last film 'Autumn Girl' premiered in October 2021.
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz is a member of the European Film Academy, for many years she was a board member and president of the Film 1,2 Association.
