
Directing
Jan P. Matuszyński
Born
1984-04-23 (42)
Place of birth
Katowice, Poland
Known for
Directing
Credits
18 titles
Jan Paweł Matuszyński (born 23 April 1984, Katowice) is a Polish film director and a producer of documentary films. In 2012, he graduated in Film and Television Directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. In 2014, he was awarded the Silver George Award at the Moscow Film Festival for his documentary film Deep Love. In 2016, he won the Golden Lions award at the 41st Gdynia Film Festival for The Last Family, a film telling the story of artist Zdzisław Beksiński, starring Andrzej Seweryn (awarded the Silver Leopard for that role at the Locarno Film Festival) and Dawid Ogrodnik. In 2016, he was awarded the Paszport Polityki Award in the film category for The Last Family. Hi…
Known for
6.8In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.
Leave No Traces
2021
Teenager Kacper falls in love with a girl he met online and decides to find her.
Offline
2012
7.1Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals...
The Last Family
2016
The story of a man who is released from prison years later and must exact a revenge that is not obvious.
Święty
—
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Talking Heads 2021
2021
5.4After the loss of his daughter, Jurek, together with his father-in-law Ben, decides to perform the Chinese minghun ritual.
Minghun
2024
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.8In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.
Leave No Traces
2021
Teenager Kacper falls in love with a girl he met online and decides to find her.
Offline
2012
7.1Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals...
The Last Family
2016
The story of a man who is released from prison years later and must exact a revenge that is not obvious.
Święty
—
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Talking Heads 2021
2021
5.4After the loss of his daughter, Jurek, together with his father-in-law Ben, decides to perform the Chinese minghun ritual.
Minghun
2024
"When pain is unbearable, when love is unconditional, when chance dictates the unfolding of events, anything is possible..."
Afterparty
2009
"When pain is unbearable, when love is unconditional, when chance dictates the unfolding of events, anything is possible..."
Afterparty
2009
7.0Janusz, a self-confident 60-year old, an incredibly active person and an accomplished diver, suffers a stroke which leaves him paralyzed. Rehabilitation and assistance of his partner Asia help him regain mobility and improve his functions. He is still struggling with speech and the only person who understands what he says is Asia who interprets him for the world. What keeps Janusz going and motivates to carry on is his big dream - he would like to dive again, despite major hazard for his health and life. His goal is to travel to beautiful but perilous Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt which poses a challenge even to fit divers.
Deep Love
2013
7.0Janusz, a self-confident 60-year old, an incredibly active person and an accomplished diver, suffers a stroke which leaves him paralyzed. Rehabilitation and assistance of his partner Asia help him regain mobility and improve his functions. He is still struggling with speech and the only person who understands what he says is Asia who interprets him for the world. What keeps Janusz going and motivates to carry on is his big dream - he would like to dive again, despite major hazard for his health and life. His goal is to travel to beautiful but perilous Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt which poses a challenge even to fit divers.
Deep Love
2013
Iza, a former actress, organizes a reunion of the graduates of the mime study. She wants to settle a painful past in this way.
15 lat milczenia
2007
Action drama. Bartek has just completed his military service. He goes home by train. He gets off the train, looks around to find his girlfriend, Karolina. She was supposed to collect him from the station, but she's not there…
I Know Who Did It
2008
Action drama. Bartek has just completed his military service. He goes home by train. He gets off the train, looks around to find his girlfriend, Karolina. She was supposed to collect him from the station, but she's not there…
I Know Who Did It
2008
38-year-old Robert learned that he had advanced cancer of the bone marrow. The doctors did not give him much hope - according to their opinion, he had only a few months to go. Robert decided to devote himself to the one thing that gives him joy: he began to paint icons. He says, "in this disease there can be something good."
Niebo
2011
Andrzej, a great fan of speedway racing, can’t go back home where his beloved woman as well as a the world cup TV broadcast are waiting for him, because he has to fill in for his indisposed colleague at a night shift in the carwash. It was another quiet night, as he expected. Until a yellow Wartburg drove into the carwash... ‘People have been trying to create tragedies for ages, yet what comes out is just a comedy’ – this is the motto by Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, which opens this film, full of suspense and comedy.
The Carwash
2007
Intimate story about how much we need another man. Peter and Olga meet at a time when everything seems to be over. They decide together take their last journey.
Together
2006

