director of the film “Just Hear Me Out”
Graduate of Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia, director and author of scripts for documentaries, feature films, theatre and radio plays. Since 2021, she has been a lecturer at the PWSTIF. Winner of many Polish and international awards. Her fiction film debut “All For My Mother”, which she wrote and directed, received the Golden Debut Award at the 3Kino Fest IFF Praha (2020), Best Narrative Feature at the Ojai Film Festival (2020), the Best Director and Best Feature Film Award at the International Film Festival Dhaka (2020), the Debut Director Award and the Audience Award at the Warsaw Film Festival (2019). In addition, it was awarded the Youth Jury Award at the 2020 Tarnów Film Festival, an honourable mention at the 2020 Lubuskie Film Summer Festival, at the Cinergia European Cinema Forum and the Bastau International Film Festival in Kazakhstan. "All for My Mother” also received five nominations for the 2021 Orły Polish Film Awards. Małgorzata Imielska's latest documentary film “Love and Empty Words” (prod. Kronika Film Studio, 2018), which she also wrote and directed, won numerous awards in Poland and internationally, including the "Golden Grape" award at the 48th Lubuskie Film Festival and the award of the Association of Polish Filmmakers at the International Festival "Man in Danger" in Łódź in 2018. In addition, in 2019 it was awarded the Grand Prize at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Documentary Director Award at the Great Message International Film Festival in New Delhi, the Grand Prix in the Women's Films Winner category at the International Cult Film Festival in Kolkata and the Best Documentary Award at the Ekran Polish Film Festival in Toronto. Many of Małgorzata Imielska's films deal with the issues related to the Holocaust. She made the film “Perseverance”, about Ben Barenholtz, the famous American film producer, and the film “Tell Me Why”, about love during the Shoah. For the latter she received several international awards; including in Guangzhou, Huston, at the Krakow International Documentary Film Festival, and the Jewish Motifs Festival. For her play "Chciałam Ci tylko powiedzieć” she was awarded a prize at the Festival of Polish Radio Theatre and Polish Television Theatre "Two Theatres", and a distinction from the Minister of Culture and Art in the national competition for the staging of Polish contemporary art in 2003.
