Grzegorz Dębowski wins Warsaw Grand Prix at 42nd Film Festival

The 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival concluded with the announcement of its award winners. The top honor, the Warsaw Grand Prix, was awarded to Grzegorz Dębowski for the film ‘What Belongs to Others’ (Cudze rzeczy). The jury praised the film for its precise storytelling and complex portrait of a woman assuming a stranger's identity.

Other major winners included Chinese filmmaker Cai Chengjie, who received the Best Director award for ‘Suzhou Quartet’. Maria Dębska earned a Special Jury Award for her performance in Maciej Sobieszczański’s ‘Through the Wall’, a film set during the Stalinist era in Poland. The production also received the FIPRESCI Prize.

In other categories, Lorin Terezi won the main prize for the film ‘Agia’. Jonas Spriestersbach’s ‘Meanwhile in Namibia’ was named the best feature documentary, while Elisabeth Werchos won the Short Grand Prix for ‘Meteorite’.