The Guests Are Coming! Who Will Visit Świdnica and Trutnov?

The 11th Spektrum Film Festival is not only about film screenings but also about meetings with the people shaping contemporary cinema. Between October 21 and 26, Świdnica and Trutnov will host directors, as well as actors and actresses appearing in the films presented at the festival. Among the festival guests will be, among others, Kamila Urzędowska, Filip Zaręba, Magdalena Maścianica, and Monika Majorek.

Filip Zaręba – leading actor in LARP (dir. Kordian Kądziela)

He gained wider recognition as the new actor portraying Stanisław Adamczewski in season two of the Netflix hit series 1670. His career is developing dynamically — he combines theater, film, and music, while maintaining a strong bond with his hometown, Busko-Zdrój. The meeting with Filip Zaręba will take place after the festival’s opening (21.10), and later that evening, at 11:00 p.m., he will perform a concert at Club Bolko, showcasing his musical side.

Kamila Urzędowska – one of the leading roles in The Altar Boys (dir. Paweł Domalewski)

Her breakthrough came with the role of Jagna in The Peasants directed by DK and Hugh Welchman. In February 2024, during Berlinale, she received the prestigious European Shooting Star title, awarded to the most promising European actors. This year, she stars as Izabela Łęcka in the upcoming adaptation of Bolesław Prus’s The Doll. Kamila Urzędowska will visit Świdnica (22.10) in connection with her role in The Altar Boys, winner of the Golden Lions for Best Film at the Gdynia Film Festival.

Magdalena Maścianica – leading role in Życie dla początkujących (dir. Paweł Podolski)

Associated with the Kochanowski Theatre in Opole, she has created dozens of stage roles over the years. In 2025, she made her feature film debut in Życie dla początkujących, for which she received the Rising Star Award at the Mastercard Off Camera Festival for a performance heralding a brilliant career. She will meet the audience on October 21.

Monika Majorek – director of Where Do We Begin

Monika Majorek’s short films have been screened at numerous international festivals, earning awards for directing, screenplay, cinematography, and music. The director will visit Trutnov (25.10) with her feature debut Where Do We Begin, which won Best Feature Film in the Audience Poll at the 40th Warsaw Film Festival and received two awards at the 49th Gdynia Film Festival.

Korek Bojanowski and Nel Kaczmarek – director and leading actress in Loss of Balance

Loss of Balance is the feature debut of Korek Bojanowski, starring Nel Kaczmarek in the main role. The film received four awards at the 2024 Gdynia Film Festival and portrays abuse at art academies through the lens of a psychological thriller. The creators will meet the audience on October 24 as part of the Alchemia Teatralna program.

Daniela Komędera and Weronika Humaj – leading actresses in Glorious Summer (dir. Helena Ganjalyan, Bartosz Szpak)

Daniela Komędera and Weronika Humaj will also visit Świdnica and Trutnov. They star in Glorious Summer, which premiered at South by Southwest in Texas – one of the world’s most important independent film festivals. In their debut feature, Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak explore the boundary between safety and freedom, creating a surreal, thought-provoking vision of the future – or perhaps the present?

Artur Pilarczyk and Michał Borzemski – director and protagonist of Escape to Alkatraz

As part of the Open Detention section, a screening of Escape to Alkatraz will take place in the Świdnica Detention Center. The documentary tells the story of a group of street basketball enthusiasts from Wałbrzych who, for over 20 years, have been organizing a national tournament on a court they built themselves, becoming a social phenomenon. After the screening (24.10), there will be a meeting with the director, Artur Pilarczyk, and one of the film’s protagonists, Michał Borzemski.