Michal Rosa

Michał Rosa (b. 1963, Zabrze, Poland) studied architecture and then film direction at the University of Silesia in Katowice, where he has also been lecturing since the mid-1990s. For his film Military Games (Gry i zabawy wojskowe, 1991) he was nominated for a student Oscar. The film Hot Thursday (Gorący czwartek, 1994) was awarded Best Debut in 1993 at the festival in Gdynia. He received a number of domestic awards in 1997 for his feature Paint (Farba, 1997). The film Silence (Cisza, 2001) was screened in competition at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2002, where it won the Ecumenical Jury Award. His next film, What the Sun Has Seen (Co słonko widziało, 2005), won several awards at the Gdynia festival. His most recent work, Scratch was screened in the parallel section Giornate degli autori at the Venice IFF 2008.

MFF Karlovy Vary