# Gdynia Film Festival

The Gdynia Film Festival aka FPFF (until 2011: Polish Film Festival, Polish: Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni) is an annual film festival first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in Gdynia, Poland.
It has taken place every year since 1974, except in 1982 and 1983 when Poland was under martial law.
The organizers of the festival are the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, Polish Film Institute (PISF), Polish Filmmakers Association, the Pomeranian Voivodeship Local Government as well as the port city of Gdynia.
The Polish Film Festival award is the Grand Prix Golden Lions (Polish: Złote Lwy), which is different from the Eagle (Polish: Orzeł), awarded at the Polish Film Awards and the Seattle Polish Film Festival (Seattle is the sister city of Gdynia). Special awards include the Platinum Lions (Platynowe Lwy) conferred for lifetime achievements in cinema as well as the Audience Award. Agnieszka Holland holds the record number of wins at the festival having been awarded the Grand Prix four times. In 2020, Mariusz Wilczyński's Kill It and Leave This Town became the first ever animated film in the festival's history to be awarded the Golden Lions for Best Film.
The jury for the 2008 competition was headed by Robert Gliński, a director who had previously won at the festival.

## List of winners

The Golden Lions Award was not awarded on six occasions: in 1976, four films were instead awarded Main Prizes (Polish: Nagroda Główna), the films which received this distinction were Jerzy Łomnicki's Ocalić miasto, Marek Piwowski's Przepraszam, czy tu biją?, Andrzej Wajda's Smuga cienia and Mieczysław Waśkowski's Hazardziści; in 1982 and 1983, the festival was not held due to the imposition of the martial law in Poland; in 1989, 1991 and 1996.
| Year | Director(s) | Original Title | English Title | Source(s) |
| 1974 | Jerzy Hoffman | Potop | The Deluge | |
| 1975 | Andrzej Wajda | Ziemia obiecana | The Promised Land | |
| 1975 | Jerzy Antczak | Dnie i noce | Nights and Days | |
| 1976 | No award | – | – | – |
| 1977 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Barwy ochronne | Camouflage | |
| 1978 | Stanisław Różewicz | Pasja | Passion | |
| 1978 | Andrzej Wajda | Bez znieczulenia | Without Anesthesia | |
| 1979 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Amator | Camera Buff | |
| 1980 | Kazimierz Kutz | Paciorki jednego różańca | The Beads of One Rosary | |
| 1981 | Agnieszka Holland | Gorączka | Fever | |
| 1982 | Cancelled | – | – | – |
| 1983 | Cancelled | – | – | – |
| 1984 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Austeria | Austeria | |
| 1985 | Stanisław Różewicz | Kobieta w kapeluszu | Woman in a Hat | |
| 1986 | Witold Leszczyński | Siekierezada | Siekierezada | |
| 1987 | Janusz Zaorski | Matka Królów | The Mother of Kings | |
| 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Krótki film o miłości | A Short Film About Love | |
| 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Krótki film o zabijaniu | A Short Film About Killing | |
| 1989 | No award | – | – | – |
| 1990 | Wojciech Marczewski | Ucieczka z kina "Wolność" | Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema | |
| 1991 | No award | – | – | – |
| 1992 | Robert Gliński | Wszystko co najważniejsze | All That Really Matters | |
| 1993 | Radosław Piwowarski | Kolejność uczuć | The Order of Feelings | |
| 1993 | Grzegorz Królikiewicz | Przypadek Pekosińskiego | The Pekosiński's Case | |
| 1994 | Kazimierz Kutz | Zawrócony | Reverted | |
| 1995 | Juliusz Machulski | Girl Guide | Girl Guide | |
| 1996 | No award | – | – | – |
| 1997 | Jerzy Stuhr | Historie miłosne | Love Stories | |
| 1998 | Jan Jakub Kolski | Historia kina w Popielawach | The History of the Cinema in Popielawy | |
| 1999 | Krzysztof Krauze | Dług | The Debt | |
| 2000 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona droga płciową | Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease | |
| 2001 | Robert Gliński | Cześć, Tereska | Hi, Tereska | |
| 2002 | Marek Koterski | Dzień świra | Day of the Wacko | |
| 2003 | Dariusz Gajewski | Warszawa | Warsaw | |
| 2004 | Magdalena Piekorz | Pręgi | Welts | |
| 2005 | Feliks Falk | Komornik | The Collector | |
| 2006 | Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze | Plac Zbawiciela | Saviour Square | |
| 2007 | Andrzej Jakimowski | Sztuczki | Tricks | |
| 2008 | Waldemar Krzystek | Mała Moskwa | Little Moscow | |
| 2009 | Borys Lankosz | Rewers | Reverse | |
| 2010 | Jan Kidawa-Błoński | Różyczka | Little Rose | |
| 2011 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Essential Killing | Essential Killing | |
| 2012 | Agnieszka Holland | W ciemności | In Darkness | |
| 2013 | Paweł Pawlikowski | Ida | Ida | |
| 2014 | Łukasz Palkowski | Bogowie | Gods | |
| 2015 | Małgorzata Szumowska | Body/Ciało | Body | |
| 2016 | Jan P. Matuszyński | Ostatnia rodzina | The Last Family | |
| 2017 | Piotr Domalewski | Cicha noc | The Silent Night | |
| 2018 | Paweł Pawlikowski | Zimna wojna | Cold War | |
| 2019 | Agnieszka Holland | Obywatel Jones | Mr. Jones | |
| 2020 | Mariusz Wilczyński | Zabij to i wyjedź z tego miasta | Kill It and Leave This Town | |
| 2021 | Łukasz Ronduda and Łukasz Gutt | Wszystkie nasze strachy | All Our Fears | |
| 2022 | Agnieszka Smoczyńska | The Silent Twins | The Silent Twins | |
| 2023 | Paweł Maślona | Kos | Kos | |
| 2024 | Agnieszka Holland | Zielona granica | Green Border | |

## Gallery

* Commemorative festival statue in Gdynia
* Music Theatre in Gdynia, the main venue of the festival
* Andrzej Seweryn at the 2016 Gdynia Film Festival
* Main entrance
* Małgorzata Foremniak at the 2009 Gdynia Film Festival