Pawlina Carlucci Sforza

Director and screenwriter Pawlina Carlucci Sforza graduated from the University of the Arts’ London College of Communication and from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Her background also includes a stint at the Warsaw Film School and another in Italy, at the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti in Torino. She made her co-directorial debut with “Not to Judge” (2017), which won the Grand OFF Best Documentary award and was nominated in the Best Polish Film category (2017). In 2018, it was nominated for the Jan Machulski Best Director award.

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Films

  • The Fear / Wielki Strach28

    The film tells the story of the communal memory of killings that took place after World War II in the Dębrzyna forest in south-east Poland. It was a time when many people were returning from far-flung corners of the world. They had no idea that they might become victims of the attacks being perpetrated by the marauding bandits who had overrun the area. The returnees were hurled from trains, robbed and murdered. It was as if they had joined the numbers of those killed during the war. The residents of the nearby villages knew what was going on in the forest, but they never intervened because, as they themselves say, they were “living in fear.”

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