Aleksandra Ławska

Aleksandra Ławska is a film programmer. Between 2019 and 2021, she worked as the programme coordinator, and in 2023, she took on the role of competition coordinator at the Short Waves Festival. From 2018 to 2022, she worked as a project coordinator at the Ad Arte Cultural Foundation in Poznań, co-organising cultural events, film screenings, and educational workshops. She has been a member of the preselection committees for the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal (FNC), the Glasgow Short Film Festival, and the Lago Film Fest, as well as Ale Kino! Festival, FILMFEST DRESDEN, and of the European Short Pitch script evaluation committee. As a curator of film programmes, she has collaborated with FeKK Ljubljana, Zachęta National Gallery of Art (“The Sun Rises Pale Over the Mountains”), Animocje Festival, and others. Throughout the year, she also collaborates with Cinema Muza in Poznań, Poland. Additionally, she works in film translation and subtitling. She has served as a jury member at festivals including Go Short Nijmegen, the Brussels Short Film Festival, and the Bucharest Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF).

Aleksandra Ławska participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Aleksandra Ławska’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Talking Heads Gadające głowy Krzysztof Kieślowski Poland 1980 15’
La Pieuvre The Octopus Jean Painlevé France 1928 14’
Inflorescence Nicolaas Schmidt Germany 2020 8’
Dyketactics Barbara Hammer USA 1974 4’
Meshes of the Afternoon Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren USA 1946 14’
Fireworks Kenneth Anger USA 1947 14’
Tango Zbigniew Rybczyński Poland 1981 8’
White Trash Girl Jennifer Reeder USA 1995 8’
The Burden Min börda Niki Lindroth von Bahr Sweden 2017 15’
Ghost Takashi Ito Japan 1985 6’