Szczecin Film Festiwal
How it was in 2025...
FRIDAY10.10.2025
Author’s meeting with Wojciech Wysocki
Retrospective: „Pismak”
THURSDAY16.10.2025
„Oni zbudowali nasz dom”
Festival Opening Ceremony — „Pasja według Agnieszki”
The Top League: „Pociągi”
FRIDAY17.10.2025
EUROPEAN COMPETITION — BLOCK 1
- Sa Rafale, Dir. Maxime Garault — France/Germany, 2025, 40’
- The Passenger Andrzej Munk | Pasażer Andrzej Munk, Dir. Michał Bielawski — Poland, 2025, 28’
- Moving Mountains | Dis-moi sur quel pied tu danses, Dir. Andrea Costa — Italy, 2025, 29’
EUROPEAN COMPETITION — BLOCK 2
- Selma, Songs of the Crossing, Dir. Jean-Jacques Cunnac — France/USA, 2025, 78’
- Women Soldiers of Ukraine | Żołnierki Ukrainy, Dir. Michał Przedlacki — Poland, 2024, 36’
- Lift Lady, Dir. Marcin Modzelewski — Poland, 2024, 25’
- Stand by Me, Dir. Parisa Zandbaf — Netherlands, 2024, 10’
SATURDAY18.10.2025
Author’s meeting with Jan Holoubek
West Pomeranian Shorts — BLOCK 1
- Can You See? | Widzisz?, Dir. Mateusz Nowak — Poland, 2025, 13’
- Coldness | Chłodno, Dir. Lena Jaworska — Poland, 2025, 30’
- Lost & Found | Rzeczy znalezione, Dir. Wiktoria Kwoka — Poland, 2025, 18’
- Gaze at the Sky | Patrzę w niebo, Dir. Alexandra Strunin — Poland, 2025, 24’
EUROPEAN COMPETITION — BLOCK 3
- The Whale Song | Pieśń Wieloryba, Dir. Michał Hytroś — Poland, 2025, 64’
- My Land is Burned, Dir. Abdulrahman Alshowaiki — Belgium, 2024, 30’
- Living with the Taliban | Żyjąc z Talibami, Dir. Siarhei Marchyk, Witold Repetowicz — Poland, 2024, 53’
EUROPEAN COMPETITION — BLOCK 4
- The Longer You Bleed, Dir. Ewan Waddell — Ukraine, 2025, 73’
- Being Mikolaj | Być Jak Mikołaj, Dir. Aurelia Frydrych-Zdanowska — Poland, 2024, 57’
- Goodbye Kabul | Au Revoir Kabul, Dir. Latifa Sakhi Zada, Alfredo Lobo Sánchez — Spain, 2025, 25’
SUNDAY19.10.2025
Zachodniopomorski Fundusz Filmowy Pomerania Film na SFF: „Misja Brzesko”
West Pomeranian Shorts — BLOCK 2
- Farewell to the Sea | Pożegnanie z morzem, Dir. Mateusz Nowak — Poland, 2025, 13’
- Eckerberg. The History of the Syrenie Stawy | Eckerberg. Historia Syrenich Stawów, Dir. Anna Maria Koc — Poland, 2025, 14’
- 33 Revolutions Around the Sun | 33 okrążenia Słońca, Dir. Łukasz Bogusz — Poland, 2024, 14’
- I’m not here | Nie ma mnie, Dir. Daniel Le Hai — Poland, 2024, 23’
- BUSHIDO. The Choice, Dir. Marcin Tomaszewski — Poland, 2025, 29’
EUROPEAN COMPETITION — BLOCK 5
- Nairobi Bebop, Dir. Alberto Pifferi — Italy, 2025, 63’
- Ikea Loves Wood | Ikea elsker træ, Dir. Tom Heinemann — Denmark, 2024, 59’
- Esaro, Dir. Magdalena Wolnik-Mierzwa — Poland, 2024, 29’
EUROPEAN COMPETITION — BLOCK 6
- Tell me what foot you’re dancing on | Dis-Moi Sur Quel Pied Tu Danses, Dir. Philippe Ménard — France, 2025, 72’
- Analogue Natives, Dir. Bernd Lützeler — Germany/India, 2025, 25’
- The Village of Ballet Dancers | Baletler Köyü, Dir. Fatih Diren — Turkey, 2025, 22’
- The Cross in the Sahel, Dir. Bartek Żytkowiak — Poland, 2025, 28’
MONDAY20.10.2025
Awards Ceremony
OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2025SFF on the Road
Screenings of awarded films in the region
Festival venues in Szczecin
al. Wojska Polskiego 73, Szczecin
al. Wojska Polskiego 2, Szczecin
ul. Korsarzy 34, Szczecin
pl. Solidarności 1, Szczecin
al. Wojska Polskiego 84, Szczecin
al. Piastów 12, Szczecin
The organizer reserves the right to make changes to the programme.
20. Szczecin Film Festival
We are 20 years old. Together we have watched thousands of films, met fascinating creators, and learned the art of cinema from the very best. This year we are returning with great joy with the European Documentary Film Competition. The West Pomeranian Shorts will also be with us, along with outstanding Guests. Among those who have confirmed their participation are Wojciech Wysocki and Jan Holoubek, and the programme will feature “Trains” by Maciej Drygas and “Passion According to Agnieszka” by Wojciech Staroń. We look forward to 11 days full of cinematic experiences in Szczecin and the region, during which we will present nearly 40 films.
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."
