PAWEŁ PODOLSKI

Director and screenwriter. A graduate of the Gdynia Film School. He lectures at the University of Gdańsk. In 2020, he directed the short film “Do Monsters Eat Kiwi?”, which won awards at festivals in Austin and Portland. In 2022, together with Agnieszka Śladkowska, he became the winner of the Script Pro competition for the family film script “Frank Lightning: Operation Dragonfly”. “Life for Beginners” (2025) is his feature-length directorial debut. He is currently working on his second feature film – the dramedy “A Bit of Sense”, written by Lynn Kucharczyk, co-writer of “Life for Beginners”.

Q&A guest after “Life for Beginners” screening