--- name: "Agnieszka Smoczyńska" canonical: "https://film.one/person/agnieszka-smoczynska" fi1m_id: "agnieszka-smoczynska" imdb_id: "nm2835452" tmdb_id: 1557607 wikidata_id: "Q21288243" roles: ["Director"] born: "18 May 1978" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-10T04:11:27.054960+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Agnieszka Smoczyńska ## Identity Agnieszka Smoczyńska - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/agnieszka-smoczynska - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** agnieszka-smoczynska - **IMDb ID:** nm2835452 - **TMDB ID:** 1557607 - **Wikidata ID:** Q21288243 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Smoczy%C5%84ska, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21288243, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2835452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1557607 Director. Born 18 May 1978 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 18 May 1978, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland - **Also known as:** Agnieszka Smoczynska, Agnieszka Smoczyńska Konopka - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Smoczy%C5%84ska, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21288243, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2835452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1557607 ## Fi1m on Agnieszka Smoczyńska > She lights everything like a nightclub at the end of the world and puts a woman on the margins in the middle of it. When there is a story to hold the pictures in place she is worth following; in *Hot Spot* there is not. A nightclub lit red and blue, a woman on a stage, and something going badly wrong just out of frame. That is the Agnieszka Smoczyńska picture. It was there in *The Lure* (2015), a mermaid musical set in a Warsaw nightclub, and it is there again in *Hot Spot* (2026), where the one thing we would send you to see is a concert. She likes the lurid, she likes loud music over bad feeling, and she likes a woman who does not belong where she is standing. What varies from film to film is whether there is a story underneath to carry all that. She began with shorts and documentaries in the mid-2000s, and *The Lure*, written by Robert Bolesto and drawn from her own childhood around nightclubs, was the breakthrough. *Fugue* (2018) was the opposite film: a controlled drama about a woman with dissociative fugue who returns to a family she does not remember, written by and starring Gabriela Muskała. There was a segment in the horror anthology *The Field Guide to Evil* (2018), television including *1983* and *Warrior Nun*, and then *The Silent Twins* (2022), her first film in English, about June and Jennifer Gibbons, with animation standing in for the world the two of them wrote for each other. The through-line is plain enough: a genre, a woman on the margins, and music and pictures doing the work of explaining her. When the story holds, the stylisation serves it. *The Lure* was quite as odd as *Hot Spot* and twice as clear, because it had two sisters and never let go of them, and *The Silent Twins* kept the same grip even when some critics found its fantasy sequences mannered. In *Hot Spot* the grip is gone. Bolesto's script gives us a man called Jan 623 (Andrzej Konopka), a woman called Rana (Noomi Rapace), a woman called Ayka (Reika Kirishima), a soldier and a train, and the tagline, "The system is unstable", is as much premise as anyone gets. We sat in the red and the blue for 101 minutes admiring the lighting and growing steadily crosser that nobody would tell us why Jan had a number, and by the time the concert came round we had stopped waiting for an answer. We gave it 48, and the concert earned most of that. She has worked with Bolesto three times and with the cinematographer Jakub Kijowski three times, and the look of her films is consistent even when the writing is not. In 2023 her advice to young filmmakers was three words: "Embrace the madness." *Hot Spot* does, and nobody could mistake it for anyone else's film. The next one needs what the first one had, which is somebody on screen to hold on to while the lights change colour. ## Biography Agnieszka Smoczyńska is a Polish film and television director and writer. Born on 18 May 1978 in Wrocław, she studied at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and attended the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. Her feature debut *The Lure* (2015), a musical horror film, premiered at Sundance and was later released by the Criterion Collection. Subsequent features include *Fugue* (2018), which screened in Cannes Critics’ Week, and *The Silent Twins* (2022), for which she received the Golden Lions Award at the Gdynia Film Festival. She has also directed episodes of the series *1983* (2018) and *Warrior Nun* (2020). Smoczyńska’s most recent feature, the English-language sci-fi thriller *Hot Spot* (2026), stars Noomi Rapace and Andrzej Konopka and was acquired by Focus Features for international distribution. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, thewrap.com, deadline.com, culture.pl.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Hot Spot* (2026), Fi1m 48, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/hot-spot.md) ## Complete filmography (22) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Hot Spot* (2026), Director — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/hot-spot.md) - *Where Do We Begin* (2025), Editorial Consultant - *Simona Kossak* (2024), Thanks - *Wrooklyn Zoo* (2024), Thanks - *The Girl with the Needle* (2024), Thanks - *Abortion Dream Team* (2024), Editorial Consultant - *Absolute Beginners* (2023), series, Actor - *The Silent Twins* (2022), Director - *Warrior Nun* (2020), series, Director - *The Field Guide to Evil* (2019), Director - *1983* (2018), series, Director - *Fugue* (2018), Director - *Wild Roses* (2017), Thanks - *Wasza Wysokość* (2016), Director - *The Lure* (2015), Director - *Baby Bump* (2015), Second Unit Director - *My Name Is Ki* (2011), Assistant Director - *Viva Maria!* (2010), Director, Screenplay - *Aria Diva* (2007), Director, Screenplay - *Artykuł 567* (2005), Director - *3 Love* (2004), Director, Writer - *Kapelusz* (2003), Director, Writer ## Gallery - ![Agnieszka Smoczyńska](https://film.one/media/person/6826714/gallery-d3fe61de9dcd.jpg) Agnieszka Smoczyńska — Aga Bliska, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Agnieszka_Smoczy%C5%84ska_2024_%28cropped2%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Cropped version of Agnieszka Smoczyńska.jpg (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/6826714/gallery-fbc0b4e2ff91.jpg) Cropped version of Agnieszka Smoczyńska.jpg (2025) — Xalion, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Agnieszka_Smoczy%C5%84ska_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Photograph of Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2024](https://film.one/media/person/6826714/gallery-21e686583111.jpg) Photograph of Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2024 — Aga Bliska, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Agnieszka_Smoczy%C5%84ska.jpg/1280px-Agnieszka_Smoczy%C5%84ska.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Agnieszka Smoczyńska](https://film.one/media/person/6826714/gallery-fc1186476257.jpg) Agnieszka Smoczyńska — Image via TMDB - ![Agnieszka Smoczyńska](https://film.one/media/person/6826714/gallery-374db9181feb.jpg) Agnieszka Smoczyńska — Image via TMDB - ![Agnieszka Smoczyńska](https://film.one/media/person/6826714/gallery-79987043412d.jpg) Agnieszka Smoczyńska — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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