Magda Kowalczyk

cinematographer

SELECTED WORK

ANTIHEROINE

dir. Edward Lovelace

James Hall

doc, 2026Courtney Love, singer, songwriter, and actor, is sober and preparing to release new music after a decade, ready to share her unfiltered story.

COW

dir. Andrea Arnold

95min, doc, 2021

This film is an endeavour to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way but in a real way. It's a film about one dairy cow's reality and acknowledging her great service to us.

HIGH & LOW - JOHN GALLIANO

dir. Kevin Macdonald

117 min, doc, 2023

Reliving triumphs and controversies, fashion designer John Galliano takes center stage in this grippingly nuanced portrait from Oscar®-winner Kevin Macdonald. Star-studded interviews and rare archival footage reveal the toxicity behind exquisite glamor and spectacle, both on and off the runway.

LAST SONG FROM KABUL

dir. Kevin Macdonald

34 mins, doc, 2023

The riveting, heroic story of young orphaned girls whose music school was closed after the Taliban took over Afghanistan as they escape to Portugal to try and rebuild their fractured lives and begin to play music again.

Letters to A.

dir. Victoria Szymanska

56 min, doc, 2019

He calls himself an idiot even though he is a philosopher. Is Artur a loser or a winner? This film highlights the issues of people who are different, homeless, handicapped, prejudged by mainstream society.

THE GOSSIP (2020)

13min, short

Careless talk and gossip occur in all walks of life and can create rifts in the closest of relationships. Repairing this damage requires compassion and understanding. Traits that are often most needed when they are least accessible. Healing a once loving relationship can be the hardest task of all.

dir. Rolfin Nyhus

LAST DAY OF SUMMER (2017)

14min, drama

A elderly woman suffering from dementia befriends a young boy.

REMI AWARD, Worldfest Houston, US

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SHORT FILM, Young Artist Academy Awards, Los Angeles

AFRODITE AWARD, BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, Rome

Festival screenings in Bulgaria, Canada, France, Jordan, Poland, Indonesia, Spain, South Korea, UK and US.

dir. Alexandra Czenczek

AWAY WITH ME (2015)

11min, short

A spontaneous holiday romance in Nice turns sour when there is a clash of intentions and expectations between the two men.

Featured at (selected):
BFI Flare London, 2016 (Industry Selection)
North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2016
Unicorn Nights (supporting My Beautiful Laundrette)
Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival, 2016
London Short Film Festival, 2017

dir. Oliver Mason

SABLE FABLE (2013)

90 min, feature

Sable Fable is a beautiful story exploring the complex psychology of love, sex and ethnicity.

Sable Fable is a beautiful story exploring the complex psychology of love, sex and ethnicity through three very different couples whose lives intertwine with one another through a series of unfortunate events.

ABFF Winner - BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM and BEST DIRECTOR

dir. Stephen Lloyd Jackson

Artist Natalia Goncharova – Leader of the Russian Avant-garde | TateShots (2019)

5min

Discover the art of Natalia Goncharova, the first woman artist of the Russian avant-garde.

dir. Susan Doyon

music videos