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Robert Więckiewicz made his screen debut in 1993 in Jerzy Skolimowski's FERDYDURKE. Throughout his career, he has portrayed a wide range of characters in films by directors from Juliusz Machulski, Feliks Falk, Filip Bajon, Janusz Kondratiuk and Marek Koterski to Krzysztof Skonieczny, Jan P. Matuszyński and Paweł Maślona. His most celebrated roles include Socha in Agnieszka Holland's Academy Award-nominated IN DARKNESS (2011), Lech Wałęsa in Andrzej Wajda's WAŁĘSA: MAN OF HOPE  (2013), and Jerzy, the protagonist of Wojciech Smarzowski's THE MIGHTY ANGEL (2014). He recently returned as the art thief Cuma, the role from Machulski's VINCI (2004), in VINCI 2 (2025), which he co-wrote, and stars in Jan Holoubek's WILD WILD EAST (2026), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He has received numerous awards in Poland and abroad, including the Silver Hugo for Best Actor at the Chicago International Film Festival for Wałęsa, five Polish Film Awards (Eagles), and three individual acting awards (Lions) at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.

Kent Jones’ work as a director includes the multiple award-winning DIANE (2019); the documentary landmark HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (a Film Forum premiere in 2015); and A LETTER TO ELIA (2010), co-directed with Martin Scorsese, and his latest movie, LATE FAME, starring Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee, that opened at Film Forum in August of this year. A longtime collaborator of Scorsese’s, Jones co-wrote his epic documentary MY VOYAGE TO ITALY (1999). Jones’ film criticism has appeared in multiple journals, magazines, catalogues, newspapers, and web publications. He is the author of several books, including Physical Evidence, a collection of his criticism, and the BFI Modern Classics volume on Robert Bresson’s L’ARGENT. In addition, he was the editor of a 2012 book on Olivier Assayas, published by the Vienna Film Museum. He served as Executive Director of the World Cinema Project from 2009 to 2012 and, from 2013 to 2019, he served as Director of The New York Film Festival, where his curatorial vision helped shape the global cinematic conversation. Jones was a 2012 Guggenheim fellow. In 2015, he was made a Chevalier de l’Order des Arts et Lettres by the French government. He lives in New York City.

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