Ania Szczepanska

Born in Warsaw in 1982, Ania Szczepanska made her frst short flms in France, in the art section of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, before leaving for Berlin to study philosophy and cinema. On her return to Paris, she wrote a thesis in flm history on the relationship between Polish flmmakers and the communist government in Poland. Based on the archives thus discovered and interviews with the greatest Polish flmmakers and the men of power of the communist era, she made We Film the People! her frst feature-length documentary. Broadcast on French and Polish television, it was awarded the SCAM star (2015) and the CNRS grand prize (2014). A lecturer in flm history at the University of Paris 1, she conducts research on the cinema and audiovisual archives of the former Eastern bloc, mainly in Poland. She is the author of the book Do granic negocjacji (On the Borders of Negotiation, Universitas, Krakow, 2017) and co-author with Sylvie Lindeperg of À qui appartiennent les images? (Who owns the images? FMSH, 2017). In 2019, Ania Szczepanska directed Solidarnosc, la chute du mur commence en Pologne (Solidarnosc, the fall of the wall begins in Poland), broadcast on Arte.