Michał is a Polish cinematographer and a graduate of the Cinematography and Television Production Department at the Łódź Film School. He is a member of the Polish Society of Cinematographers (PSC) and has received multiple awards for his work in both short and feature films. His cinematography has been showcased at numerous prestigious film festivals worldwide, including Cannes, Sundance, Rotterdam, Plus Camerimage, BFI London, and the New Horizons Festival in Wrocław.
Michał’s work on EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, earned an Oscar nomination for Best International Film. He was also nominated for the Polish Film Award for Best Cinematography for this project. For Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains), directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, Michał won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Award for Best Cinematography and the National Society of Film Critics Award. Additionally, The Film Stage named him one of the Best Cinematographers of 2022. He also received another nomination for Best Cinematography at the Polish Film Awards for EO.
Michał was the cinematographer for the feature film Sweat by Magnus von Horn, which was awarded at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (2020) and nominated for the PSC Award (2022). He also shot Supernova, directed by Bartosz Kruhlik, which received a Special Mention in the Polish Films Competition at Camerimage Festival (2020). More recently, he worked on the international production Wolf, directed by Nathalie Biancher.
He was the cinematographer for the sports drama Pierce, directed by Nelicia Low and starring acclaimed Taiwanese actors Ding Ning and Tsao Yu-Ning. The film follows a young man who chooses to trust and help his dangerous older brother upon his release from prison, defying their mother’s efforts to erase his existence and hide the family’s traumatic past. Pierce won the Andrzej Wajda Krakow Film Award in the Main Competition “Making Way” at the Mastercard OFF Camera Festival 2025.
Michał was the first Polish commercial filmmaker shortlisted for the Shots Awards in the New Director of the Year category for a music video made for Prosto Wear, part of the Papaya Young Directors competition. He has collaborated with clients such as McDonald’s, Tyskie, T-Mobile, Mastercard, Orange, Adidas, ING Bank Śląski, mBank, Biedronka, Raffaello, Obi, Vizir, Żabka, Ketonal, Netto, Beesafe, Melatonina, Sizzer, Born2be, and Rak’n’Roll.
Known for his careful and sensitive camera work, Michał’s cinematography is marked by minimalism and realism, which enhance the intimacy of each shot and the emotional depth of his characters. His images are meticulously composed and harmonize perfectly with the story being told, helping to create a suggestive and contemporary visual world.
For his work on the feature film The Girl With the Needle, directed by Magnus von Horn, Michał received the Golden Frog Award at EnergaCamerimage 2024 in the Main Competition. He was also nominated for the 2025 ASC Spotlight Award. The film competed for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards®. In Poland, it won the Silver Lions at the 49th Polish Film Festival. Starring Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, The Girl With the Needle draws inspiration from one of Denmark’s most notorious murder cases, weaving a poetic and dark fairytale about people living on the margins in the aftermath of World War I. Deadline praised the film as “an unequivocal and beguiling triumph.”
Michał worked with director Jesse Eisenberg on acclaimed feature film " A Real Pain" starring Kieran Culkin who received Academy Award for Best Actor in 2025. Michał's main artistic idea was to work with perspective, as the film features characters who see themselves differently. He wanted to combine their observations by using standard lenses with longer optics, which flattens the perspective to "play with the fact that sometimes the same image can be defined differently by choosing a different focal lens.
" I wanted the portrayal of Poland in general to feel beautiful and dynamic and colorful and all the things that I feel when I'm there. I feel it's too often depicted as bleak, fetishizing its Eastern European Soviet communist history and fetishizing the horrors of the war. And that's not the Poland I know at all. The Poland I know is vibrant and colorful and warm. So I wanted to show that side of Poland, which is a side that I hadn't seen a lot in American movies, a side that felt just completely true to me."
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