Directing
Paul Kowalski
Place of birth
Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
Known for
Directing
Credits
6 titles
Paul Kowalski is an award-winning writer-director whose films center around identity, exile and obsession, often featuring dark psychologies and the supernatural. His film SARDINIA won Best Director Grand Prize at the 2024 Flickers Rhode Island film festival, and is long-listed for the 2025 Academy Awards. Executive producer Patton Oswalt called it “an effortlessly original piece of work…beyond timely”; the film stars FIRST REFORMED’s Philip Ettinger, and Emmy-winner Martha Plimpton. Paul’s 2021 debut feature PAPER TIGER won the Audience Award and a Jury Prize at the Austin Film Festival, and was subsequently sold by Gersh and distributed onto Amazon. Born in the UK to Polish immigrants, …
Known for
3.8The stage is set for retribution as an eclectic group is lured to a secluded European Castle under the guise of a promised "fantasy weekend." And as they read from an obscure storybook, a nefarious tale of avarice is reenacted for their entertainment. However, they are unaware that they have been gathered for their own personal and befitting executions.
Night of the Templar
2012
6.0An immigrant mother fears her schizophrenic teenaged son is turning into a school shooter.
Paper Tiger
2020
7.7A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.
Sardinia
2024
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.0An immigrant mother fears her schizophrenic teenaged son is turning into a school shooter.
Paper Tiger
2020
6.0An immigrant mother fears her schizophrenic teenaged son is turning into a school shooter.
Paper Tiger
2020
7.7A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.
Sardinia
2024
7.7A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.
Sardinia
2024
7.7A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.
Sardinia
2024