Jagoda Szelc

Film and theatre director, screenwriter. In 2006, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. In 2004, she was a scholarship holder at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and in 2012 she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture. In 2018, she graduated with distinction from the Directing Department of the Łódź Film School.

Her films have been screened at festivals such as the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Hot Docs, Cannes Short Film Corner, New Horizons, Brooklyn Film Festival, and many others. In 2017, she made her feature debut with “Tower. A Bright Day”, which received the awards for Best Debut and Best Screenplay at the 42nd Polish Film Festival, as well as many other international awards. The film was screened at the Berlinale in the prestigious Forum section.

In 2018, Jagoda Szelc was awarded the Polityka Passport. That same year, she completed her second feature film, “Monument”, which had its international premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Jagoda teaches Film Set Practice and Working with the Camera at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Wrocław.

According to the weekly magazine Polityka, her theatre production “Maszyna” was one of the 10 best performances of 2021. It won the Audience Award at the Interpretations Festival. She created her second production, “Uśmiechnięty”, at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw. In 2026, at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw, she directed the widely discussed “Muszenie.”

The series she directed, “Mothers of Penguins” which premiered in November 2024, was one of the most-watched series of 2024.

She is currently preparing to adapt Małgorzata Lebda’s acclaimed novel “Łakome” for the screen. Filming is scheduled to take place in 2027.