Stefan Kubicki
Directing
Biography
Stefan Kubicki is a Polish and American filmmaker. His debut short, East (Wschód), was the first narrative film to shoot in the Chernobyl Zone. He trained as a cinematographer at the Polish National Film School before earning an MFA in directing from the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles, where he received the Richard P. Rogers Award, a Student Academy Award nomination, and more than a dozen international festival prizes for Against Night — the story of a cosmonaut haunted by memory. His first feature, Safe Space, was released in 2025.
Known For
A crash landing in Mongolia forces a cosmonaut to confront the loss of his wife and young daughter years earlier.
Against Night
Three couples and a lonely friend visit an isolated escape room in the middle of the desert run by a mysterious Ukrainian performance artist.
Safe Space
A virus has killed off most of humanity. Europe is under UN quarantine and survivors live in ghost cities across the continent. The story of two friends in a dying world, and of the girl who came between them.