Jadwiga Kowalska

Director, Character Designer, Animator, Producer, Screenwriter, Compositor, 3D Animator

Email
huhu@jadwiga.ch
Website
www.jadwiga.ch
Copyright: Ralph Kühne

Born in 1982 in Bern, Switzerland. Joint Swiss and Polish citizenship. Jadwiga Kowalska studied animation and illustration at the HSLU (Hochschule Luzern, Kunst & Design) and the APS (Akademia Sztuk Pieknych) in Krakow. She has received numerous awards for her films and picture book, notably at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and the Swiss Film Prize «Quartz 2009» for the best Animation Film for TÔT OU TARD (2008) and at the Locarno Film Festival for THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER (2016).

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2023
The Car That Came Back From the Sea by Jadwiga Kowalska
2016
Die Brücke über den Fluss by Jadwiga Kowalska
2010
La fille & le chasseur by Jadwiga Kowalska
2008
Tôt ou tard by Jadwiga Kowalska
2006
Invasion Of Kraków by Jadwiga Kowalska
2006
Die Erde ist rund by Jadwiga Kowalska

Screenwriter

2023
The Car That Came Back From the Sea by Jadwiga Kowalska
2016
Die Brücke über den Fluss by Jadwiga Kowalska

Producer

2023
The Car That Came Back From the Sea by Jadwiga Kowalska
2016
Die Brücke über den Fluss by Jadwiga Kowalska

Animator

2017
Le vent dans les roseaux by Nicolas Liguori, Arnaud Demuynck
2016
Die Brücke über den Fluss by Jadwiga Kowalska
2010
La fille & le chasseur by Jadwiga Kowalska

Character Designer

2016
Die Brücke über den Fluss by Jadwiga Kowalska
2010
La fille & le chasseur by Jadwiga Kowalska
2008
Tôt ou tard by Jadwiga Kowalska
2006
Die Erde ist rund by Jadwiga Kowalska

3D Animator

2023
The Car That Came Back From the Sea by Jadwiga Kowalska

Compositor

2016
Die Brücke über den Fluss by Jadwiga Kowalska