Szczecin Film Festiwal
Meet the Jury
The jurors of the European Competition and West Pomeranian Shorts are representatives of the film world (theorists, filmmakers, directors, cinematographers, new media artists, curators, film critics, producers, etc.), selected annually by the organizers from among recognized figures of the Polish and international film industry.
Together, they form the INTERNATIONAL JURY, whose task is to select films in the competition categories of the SFF.
The juries of the European Competition and the West Pomeranian Shorts will be presented during the Festival’s Opening Ceremony. The results of both juries' deliberations will be announced at the official Awards Ceremony.
The following individuals have been invited to join the European Competition Jury in 2025:
Bartosz Wójcik
A cultural and literary scholar, he is a professor at the Instute of Literature and New Media at the University of Szczecin, where he also heads the Regionalism and Borderlands Research Team. For ten years, he ran the OFFicyna art space in Szczecin, and for almost 20 years, he curated arsc projects, selected and judged fesvals, including film fesvals, and is a mulmedia creator.
Marek Fiałek
He studied German Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 1995, he went to Germany for a semester and has remained there ever since. He defended his master's thesis on Meister Eckhart and his doctorate on Berlin's Bohemia of the late 19th century. After residencies in Hanover, Potsdam, Berlin, and Bamberg, he settled in Pomerania, where he comes from. He is a co-organizer of the PolenmARkT festival and the Ukrainicum and Polonicum summer schools, a Polish language instructor at the University of Greifswald, coordinator of the "Polish Language from Preschool to Matura" project in German schools on the border, and author of German-language studies on topics including Berlin's Bohemia, Stanisław Przybyszewski, and Alfred Mombert, a forgotten German poet of Jewish descent.
Małgorzata Kozera
Director and screenwriter. She studied at the Instute of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Warsaw, and then at the Faculty of Direcng at the Polish Naonal Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, where in 2019 she defended her thesis "An Arst on the Border of Genres. An Aempt to Reconstruct Wojciech Wiszniewski's Workshop." She has made numerous short films that have been presented at fesvals around the world. In 2014, she made her mid-length debut, "There Was a Rebellion." The film won the presgious Teresa Torańska Newsweek Award in the "Best Journalisc Feature" category. Her latest film, the feature-length debut, "Agatha's Faces," received the Golden Dragon for Best Polish Feature Film at the 2023 Krakow Film Fesval and other awards. It was also nominated for the Polish Eagles Film Awards in the "Best Documentary" category.
The West Pomeranian Shorts Jury in 2025 includes a representative of the film industry and the winner of the previous edition of the competition.
Beata Zawadka
An Associate Professor at the Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, Poland. A literary scholar by education, she specialises in the study of the U.S. South and is a passionate cinephile. Currently, her teaching focuses primarily on film studies. Her main research areas include digital culture, performativity, and transmediality. In 2009, she was awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship, which she completed in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Her postdoctoral monograph, Dis/Reputed Region: Transcoding the U.S. South, was published in 2019. She is presently working on two book projects: a co-authored study on Daphne du Maurier as a cultural morph and a monograph examining the reception of digital audiovisual culture.
Prof. Zawadka is an active member of Performance Studies International (PSi), the International American Studies Association (IASA), the European Association for American Studies (EAAS, PAAS), and the Southern Studies Forum of the EAAS. She has presented her research at numerous conferences across Europe and beyond and has published extensively in Poland and internationally on topics related to her areas of expertise.
Marcin Kluczykowski
A graduate of directing at the Łódź Film School, he earned his doctorate in Polish and Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2020. He has made short documentaries, feature films, and music videos that have won awards at Polish and international festivals. He is also involved in theater, cultural animation, and community outreach projects. Last year, he won the Best Film and Audience Award at the Szczecin Film Festival for his film "Gorzko."
