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Our lecturer, Oscar winning art director, valued teacher and devoted artistic supervisor of student films. Ewa Braun will receive a statuette at the 50th PFFF in Gdynia.
"This is incredibly joyful news for me! I am honoured by the decision to award me the Platinum Lions as a Life Achievements Award. Traditionally, this award was presented primarily to directors, which makes me even more proud that by the decision of the Festival Organizing Committee, on the recommendation of the Polish Filmmakers Association and the Festival Programme Council, I will receive this extremely prestigious award. Especially since the award will be presented at the Gala of the Jubilee 50th Polish Feature Film Festival. I am pleasantly satisfied that for the second time after Agnieszka Holland, another female artist will be recognized," comments Ewa Braun.
"This year, the Platinum Lions will be awarded to an artist gifted with exceptional film sensitivity, and at the same time, extremely precise in her actions. In the intricate worlds which she creates on the set, every detail, texture, colour and shape counts. “Working on a film is like taking an extraordinary journey in time”, says Ewa Braun, and I am already looking forward to the common journey with the laureate in Gdynia," points out the Artistic Director, Joanna Łapińska.
Director Jan P. Matuszyński, Chairman of the PFFF Programme Council, comments on the choice of the laureate: "This year, the Platinum Lions will go to a person who combines the history of cinema with the present. As the chairman of the PFFF Programme Council that proposed this candidacy, I am happy that we can distinguish Ms. Ewa Braun, who, thanks to her work, can make us feel as if time is standing still. May cinema always have such timeless power."
EWA BRAUN, is an art director, set and costume designer, professor of art, lecturer at the Department of Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and from 1999–2023, at the L. Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, where 120 student films were made under her supervision.
Winner of an Oscar for set design for Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" (with Allan Starski, 1994) and the Set Design Award at the 12th Polish Feature Film Festival for Waldemar Dziki's "The Wonder Child" (with a team of set designers, 1987). She collaborated on over 60 feature and television films and series with outstanding Polish and foreign directors. She designed costumes for, among others, Krzysztof Kieślowski's "Underground Passage" (1973), Janusz Majewski's "Jealousy and Medicine" (1973) and "Hotel Pacific" (1975) and Edward Żebrowski's "Hospital of the Transfiguration".
She has worked as a set designer, among others, with Steven Spielberg on "Schindler's List" (1994); with Volker Schlöndorff on "The Ogre" (1996); with Janusz Majewski on "The Gorgon Case" (1977), the series "Queen Bona" (1980), "Epitaph for Barbara Radziwiłłówna" (1982), "C.K. Deserters" (1985) and "Deserter’s Gold" (1998); with Jan Rybkowski and Marek Nowicki on the series "The Career of Nikodem Dyzma" (1980); with Wojciech Jerzy Has on "An Uneventful Story" (1982); with Agnieszka Holland on "Europa, Europa" (1992); Tadeusz Konwicki on "Lava" (1989); with Andrzej Wajda on "Holy Week" (1995); with Krzysztof Zanussi in "The Illumination" (1972), "Camouflage" (1976), "Wherever you are" (1988). As an art director, she worked with Krzysztof Zanussi on the films "Life for life. Maximilian Kolbe" (1990), "The Touch" (1992) and "Our God's Brother" (1997), Costa-Gavras on " A Minor Apocalypse" (1992) and Peter Kassovitz on "Jacob the Liar" (1999). Decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis, she is a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a member and founder of the Polish Film Academy. From 1990-1996, she was a member of the Main Board of the Polish Filmmakers Association.
During the Festival, there will be events with the participation of the laureate. We will be able to see "Nieciekawa historia" by Wojciech Jerzy Has with set design by Ewa Braun, additionally, the laureate will take part in the section Masters Five and run a masterclass.
The 50th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia will run from 22 to 27, September, 2025. The producer of the PFFF is the Pomeranian Film Foundation in Gdynia.
Press information of the PFFF: festiwalgdynia.pl/aktualnosci/ewa-braun
"This year, the Platinum Lions will be awarded to an artist gifted with exceptional film sensitivity, and at the same time, extremely precise in her actions. In the intricate worlds which she creates on the set, every detail, texture, colour and shape counts. “Working on a film is like taking an extraordinary journey in time”, says Ewa Braun, and I am already looking forward to the common journey with the laureate in Gdynia," points out the Artistic Director, Joanna Łapińska.
Director Jan P. Matuszyński, Chairman of the PFFF Programme Council, comments on the choice of the laureate: "This year, the Platinum Lions will go to a person who combines the history of cinema with the present. As the chairman of the PFFF Programme Council that proposed this candidacy, I am happy that we can distinguish Ms. Ewa Braun, who, thanks to her work, can make us feel as if time is standing still. May cinema always have such timeless power."
EWA BRAUN, is an art director, set and costume designer, professor of art, lecturer at the Department of Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and from 1999–2023, at the L. Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, where 120 student films were made under her supervision.
Winner of an Oscar for set design for Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" (with Allan Starski, 1994) and the Set Design Award at the 12th Polish Feature Film Festival for Waldemar Dziki's "The Wonder Child" (with a team of set designers, 1987). She collaborated on over 60 feature and television films and series with outstanding Polish and foreign directors. She designed costumes for, among others, Krzysztof Kieślowski's "Underground Passage" (1973), Janusz Majewski's "Jealousy and Medicine" (1973) and "Hotel Pacific" (1975) and Edward Żebrowski's "Hospital of the Transfiguration".
She has worked as a set designer, among others, with Steven Spielberg on "Schindler's List" (1994); with Volker Schlöndorff on "The Ogre" (1996); with Janusz Majewski on "The Gorgon Case" (1977), the series "Queen Bona" (1980), "Epitaph for Barbara Radziwiłłówna" (1982), "C.K. Deserters" (1985) and "Deserter’s Gold" (1998); with Jan Rybkowski and Marek Nowicki on the series "The Career of Nikodem Dyzma" (1980); with Wojciech Jerzy Has on "An Uneventful Story" (1982); with Agnieszka Holland on "Europa, Europa" (1992); Tadeusz Konwicki on "Lava" (1989); with Andrzej Wajda on "Holy Week" (1995); with Krzysztof Zanussi in "The Illumination" (1972), "Camouflage" (1976), "Wherever you are" (1988). As an art director, she worked with Krzysztof Zanussi on the films "Life for life. Maximilian Kolbe" (1990), "The Touch" (1992) and "Our God's Brother" (1997), Costa-Gavras on " A Minor Apocalypse" (1992) and Peter Kassovitz on "Jacob the Liar" (1999). Decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis, she is a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a member and founder of the Polish Film Academy. From 1990-1996, she was a member of the Main Board of the Polish Filmmakers Association.
During the Festival, there will be events with the participation of the laureate. We will be able to see "Nieciekawa historia" by Wojciech Jerzy Has with set design by Ewa Braun, additionally, the laureate will take part in the section Masters Five and run a masterclass.
The 50th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia will run from 22 to 27, September, 2025. The producer of the PFFF is the Pomeranian Film Foundation in Gdynia.
Press information of the PFFF: festiwalgdynia.pl/aktualnosci/ewa-braun