Izabela Plucińska

Izabela Plucińska is a Polish animation director, born on 6 October 1974 in Koszalin and based in Berlin. She studied design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and animation at the Łódź Film School, where she later earned a doctorate and habilitation, and held a scholarship at the Konrad Wolf Film and Television Academy in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Working mainly in clay animation, she won the Berlinale Silver Bear for best short film with Jam Session (2005); her later films include Esterhazy (2009), Sexy Laundry (2015), Portrait of Suzanne (2019) and Joko (2024). She ran the Berlin production company ClayTraces from 2006 until 2023, co-founded Wait a Second Film in 2024 and teaches at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.

October 6, 1974