Andrzej Teodor Seweryn is a Polish actor and director. Regarded as one of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France, and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to have been hired by the Paris-based Comédie-Française.
Jerzy Oskar Stuhr was a Polish film and theatre actor. He was one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also worked as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor. He served as the Rector of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków for two terms: from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2002 to 2008.
Marek Tadeusz Kondrat is a former Polish TV, film and theatrical actor, director.
Krystyna Jolanta Janda is a Polish film and theater actress best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble and Man of Iron.
Gdynia Literary Prize is a Polish literary prize, which is awarded annually to authors of the best books published in the previous year in the prose, poetry, essay and translation categories.
Maja Ostaszewska is a Polish actress. She made her screen debut appearing in small role in the 1993 historical drama film Schindler's List, before playing leading role in the drama film The Haven (1998), for which she received Polish Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She received her second Polish Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Prymas – trzy lata z tysiąca (2000). Since then, Ostaszewska appeared in more than 30 motion pictures and received six Polish Academy Award for Best Actress nominations, winning twice: for Jack Strong (2014) and Body (2015).
Joanna Kulig is a Polish actress and singer. Noted for performing in different languages, she has worked in film, television and radio as well as on stage. She is the recipient of a European Film Award and two Polish Film Awards, and her work has been recognised at various film festivals. In 2018, Polish magazine Wprost included her among the 50 most influential Poles for her contributions to the cinema of Poland.
Kinga Anna Preis is a Polish actress. She is six-time Polish Film Awards–winner: four times for Best Supporting Actress in Tuesday (2001), In Darkness (2011), The Mighty Angel (2014), and I Never Cry (2020), and two times for Best Actress in Silence (2001) and The Collector (2005). She also four-time Gdynia Film Festival-winner.
Marcin Grzegorz Dorociński is a Polish film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing roles in such films as Pitbull (2005), Reverse (2009), Rose (2011), Jack Strong (2014), Hurricane (2018) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) as well as internationally produced TV series Spies of Warsaw (2013) and The Queen's Gambit (2020).
Agata Kulesza is a Polish actress who has appeared on film, television, and stage. She made her film debut playing the leading role in the 1993 comedy-drama Czlowiek z... and later appeared in films Poznań '56 (1996), The Spring to Come (2001), Moje pieczone kurczaki (2002), Expecting Love (2008) and Suicide Room (2011), for which she received Złota Kaczka Award for Best Actress.
Zofia Wichłacz is a Polish actress. She has appeared in films such as Warsaw 44 and Afterimage, and television programmes such as Medics, The Romanoffs and World on Fire.
Gabriela Muskała is a Polish actress, screenwriter and director.
Tomasz Schuchardt is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2007. He received three Gdynia Film Festival Awards and nomination for Polish Academy Award for Best Actor for 2022 drama film, Chrzciny.
Sebastian Fabijański is a Polish actor and rapper.
Abelard Piotr Giza is a comedian and screenwriter. He was a leader and founder of the Kabaret Limo, a cabaret group that existed between 1999 and 2014.
Operation Hyacinth is a 2021 Polish film directed by Piotr Domalewski, written by Marcin Ciaston and starring Tomasz Ziętek, Hubert Miłkowski, and Marek Kalita. The drama is based on the Operation Hyacinth, which was a secret mass operation of the Polish communist police, carried out in the years 1985–87. Its purpose was to create a national database of all Polish homosexuals and people who were in touch with them. The film was well received by critics.
Maria Joanna Poprzęcka is a Polish art historian, who served as the director of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw till 2008. A member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has served on the jury for the Nike Award, and was the recipient of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2003, the Gdynia Literary Prize in 2009, and the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis in 2012.
25 Years of Innocence is a 2020 Polish drama film written by Andrzej Golda and directed by Jan Holoubek. It is based on true story of Tomasz Komenda, a young man who was wrongly accused of brutal murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison. The film stars Piotr Trojan as Tomasz, and Agata Kulesza as his mother, Teresa Klemańska.
Johnny is a 2022 Polish biographical drama film directed by Daniel Jaroszek and based on the life of Jan Kaczkowski, a Catholic priest who ran a hospice in Puck. It premiered at the Gdynia Film Festival on 12 September 2022 before receiving a theatrical release in Poland on 23 September 2022.
Simona Kossak is a Polish biographical drama film directed and written by Adrian Panek. The film stars Sandra Drzymalska as a scientist and ecologist, Simona Kossak. It also stars Jakub Gierszał as Lech Wilczek, and Agata Kulesza as her mother, Elżbieta Kossak. The film premiered at the 24th New Horizons mBank International Film Festival in July 2024. It is set to be released by Next Film in Poland in November 2024.
