Noli turbare circulos meos
– Do not disturb my circles
Archimedes
Krzysztof Kopczyński
As a scholar I explore the links between literature, philosophy and film, especially documentary film. My most important monographs are „From Romanticism to New Media” (2003), „The Dybbuk. On the Unimportance of the World” (co-authored with Anna Sajewicz, 2017), „The Paradigm of Polish Romanticism in the Film Universe” (2021) and „Polish documentary film after 2005. Ideas and experiences” (2023). I have also recently published an article Religious and quasi-religious attitudes in four Polish documentaries from 2008-2019 (2021, https:// pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/30639).
Between 1996 and 2025 I produced several dozen documentaries that were screened at about 400 festivals in 70 countries. I directed the award-winning documentaries „Stone Silence” (2007) and „The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls” (2015). I am the winner of 25 film awards granted in 10 countries and 15 other awards, a member of the European Film Academy, the Polish Film Academy, the Polish Filmmakers Association and Polish Society for the Film and Media Studies.
In 2025, I finished the documentary film „Inga” (28 min.), which had its world premiere in the competition at the 65th Krakow Film Festival in May.
Its main character Inga lives in Warsaw on Daedalus Street, named after the mythological architect who escaped from the labyrinth using beeswax wings. She moved to Poland with her blind parents, along with five cats and a dog, after Russia invaded Ukraine on her fifth birthday.
Inga enjoys blowing out candles on birthday cakes because she then gets to make a wish. She also loves her camera, a torch, and a toy horse with spinning legs which her mother bought for her in Krivyi Rih.
Although Inga often guides her parents, she cannot accompany her dad on his trip to Ukraine, where he returns to handle unfinished affairs.
Please see the trailer: