Joanna Kos-Krauze
Writing
Biography
Joanna Kos-Krauze, credited also as Joanna Kos, is a Polish film director and screenwriter, best known for her collaboration with her husband, Krzysztof Krauze. In 2013 Joanna Kos and Krzysztof Krauze completed work on a biopic about the Romani poet, Papusza. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanna Kos-Krauze, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Roma poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
Papusza
We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
Birds Are Singing in Kigali
A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.
Saviour Square
In 1960s Krynica, veteran artist Włosiński’s orderly life is disrupted when local outsider Nikifor - deaf, mute, and dismissed as a harmless eccentric - arrives at his studio and begins painting his naïve masterpieces. Their unlikely friendship transforms both men, sparking a late-life creative and personal rebirth that reshapes Włosiński’s world and finally earns Nikifor recognition for his singular talent.