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Agnieszka Holland, Director of ‘Europa, Europa,’ Set to Receive the Göteborg Festival’s Honorary Award

Dec 16, 2025 11:54pm PT Agnieszka Holland, Director of ‘Europa, Europa,’ Set to Receive the Göteborg Festival’s Honorary Award By John Hopewell Plus Icon John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent john_hopewell Latest Cinephobia Releasing Takes North America on LGBT Dramedy ‘The Divine Tragedy,’ Directed by ‘Four Moons’ Sergio Tovar Velarde (EXCLUSIVE) 15 hours ago Laura Fernández Espeso Leaves Grup Mediapro 2 days ago ‘Sundays,’ Director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s San Sebastián Best Film Winner, Closes Half the World With Early Sales for Le Pacte (EXCLUSIVE) 2 days ago See All Agnieszka Holland Courtesy of the Göteborg Film Festival In a year when the Göteborg Film Festival will highlight the importance of truth, it will give its international Honorary Dragon Award to a director who has been doing that all her long, storied and multi-prized career: Poland’s Agnieszka Holland. One of European cinema’s greats, Holland will present “Franz,” her non-bio, non-hagiographic but playful takes on the Czech writer, his life, inspirations and impact down to this day, where he is now part of Prague’s tourist industry. Related Stories Netflix Mobile Game 'Best Guess Live' Launches Tonight: How to Play and Win $15,000 David Zaslav Could Become a Billionaire if Warner Bros.

Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland

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Key Highlights

  • Sells to Either Netflix or Paramount Prague made her, Holland maintains.
  • Arriving in the mid-’60s from her native Poland, it gave her a film education at its famed FAMU film school, an inspiration in the Czech New Wave and a grounding in activism – she supported the 1968 Prague Spring – repression and life.
  • This she channelled to the good in her work, a creative process observed in the final part of “Screen Tests,” (1979) one of her earliest films when she returned to Poland, which will play at a Göteborg retrospective.
  • Popular on Variety Holland was respected from almost the get-go.
  • Made back in Poland, “Screen Tests” opened the very first Göteborg Film Festival in 1979.
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