
Birthday:
05-18-1978
(46 years)
Birthplace:
Breslavia, Polonia
Biography
Agnieszka Smoczyńska (born 18 May 1978) is a Polish film and television writer and director. Her directing credits include The Lure, the short film Aria Diva and the television series Wszystko przed nami.
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Off the Hook: The Making of 'The Lure'
Act like Self
event2017
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A documentary on the making of "The Lure" (2015).
Absolute Beginners
(1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.5
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Two childhood best friends enjoying their final seaside summer as they prepare for film school meet an aspiring athlete who ignites unfamiliar desires.
The Silent Twins
Director (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.7
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June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
Hot Spot
Director (1 ep.)
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Disillusioned private investigator Djonny is called in to investigate a murder in a refugee camp. However, he becomes increasingly unstable when he confronts a cyber witch who gradually takes control of his life.
Kapelusz
Director (1 ep.)
event2003
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Agnieszka Smoczyńska's Kapelusz is an adaptation of an excerpt from Kazimierz Barandys' short story "For You and Himself." The main character is a 12-year-old boy named Michał brought up by a despotic father. But one day he receives an unexpected gift from his father...
The Lure
Director (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.3
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Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
The Field Guide to Evil
Director (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 5.6
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A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.
Viva Maria!
Director (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 4
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The great Polish opera diva Maria Foltyn created her greatest performance in Stanislaw Moniuszkos Halka, with which she toured worldwide - she was applauded by Stalin and admired by Castro. Today, when she is losing her voice, she has decided to give way to her successor. The film Viva Maria! is a tale of passion, sacrifice and devotion, and is an extraordinary story of passing down a voice.
Abortion Dream Team
Editorial Consultant (1 ep.)
event2024
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Every third woman in the world will have an abortion. That’s a fact. But in Poland there's a near-total abortion law as the government treats the life of the fetus as more important than the life of a woman. Luckily, there is Abortion Dream Team - a group of four women who run a hotline supporting their sisters in need. They inform on how to perform self-managed abortions at home or direct them to clinics abroad. They work all around the clock and they brag on TikTok that they facilitate 100 abortions per day or shock people with the slogan "Abortion is OK!”.
My Name Is Ki
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 5.6
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Ki is a young woman who no longer wants to live with the father of her child. She moves into a house in which lives Miko, a serious man who does not care for distractions. The responsibility of raising a child on her own comes up against the need to work and the wish to live a carefree life.
Baby Bump
Second Unit Director (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 4.7
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11-year-old Mickey House is no longer a child. But who is he? He doesn’t know. He’s friendless. He doesn’t understand his mother. He hates what’s happening to his body. Reality and imagination come together in a toxic mix. Events escalate to extremes… at home and at school. Mickey has to find the strength within him to put a stop to what’s begun. Where will his encounter with his own maturing body take him?
Aria Diva
Director (1 ep.)
event2007
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Basia has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves into an apartment upstairs. Basia is enchanted and seduced with her voice. A peculiar relationship is born between them. It develops into a feeling which is not particularly comfortable for either of the two women.
Fugue
Director (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.2
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Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother and daughter.
Wild Roses
Thanks (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.6
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After spending some time in a hospital, Ewa returns to her Polish village to work on a wild rose plantation. Her family situation gets increasingly complicated, however, as her husband returns home from abroad, while it is revealed that Ewa has had an affair with a high-school-aged boy. Meanwhile, her relationship with her two children is strained, in particular with the headstrong Marysia, who is approaching her first communion. As things pile up for Ewa, she starts to realize that the time has come to make some difficult decisions.
Where Do We Begin
Editorial Consultant (1 ep.)
new_releases Release: February 28, 2025
The film tells the story of three siblings and their mother, who try to rebuild their lives after their father's untimely death.
Wrooklyn Zoo
Thanks (1 ep.)
event2024
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Eighteen-year-old Kosa is the best skater in Wrocław. He has a beautiful girlfriend, great friends, an adored grandfather and a clear plan for the future - he wants to win a prestigious skateboarding competition with a lot of money at stake and a trip to Los Angeles. Everything changes dramatically when, during a carefree vacation, Kosa meets Zora - a magnetic Romani girl, with whom magic and a passionate feeling that he has never experienced before enters the boy's life.
The Girl with the Needle
Thanks (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7.7
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Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
Warrior Nun
Director (2 ep.)
event2020 star_border 8
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After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.
1983
Director (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.5
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Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
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