Elżbieta Benkowska

Elżbieta Benkowska

Interested in the cinema since she got to know that Roman Polański’s
birthday is on the same days as hers. Started shooting films on her 18th
birthday when she got the first camera.

Graduate of XV Secondary School – bilingual section with Spanish
language, currently a student of 3rd year of Slavic studies at
University of Gdańsk.

Speaks English, Spanish, Serbian and Croatian
fluently, Slovenian on intermediate level, knows basics of
Latin, Koine Greek and Old Church Slavonic.

Filmography

2010: Hokeistka 7
2009: Sąsiadka
2008: Prosto film

Hokeistka 7
Sąsiadka
Prosto film
Blog about Gdańsk-Orunia

  • “Mom Is Going Back” Awarded at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival in Serbia and Croatia

  • Mikołaj Janik’s “Mom Is Going Back” got two awards at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival: Grand Prix at the Novi Sad edition, and Second Prize for Documentary Film in Rijeka, Croatia. Organized in the region of Southern Europe (Novi Sad in Serbia, Rijeka in Croatia, and Kotor in Montenegro) in October and November, the festival features fiction and documentary films presenting themes of disability.

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