The “Polityka” Passport is a cultural award established 33 years ago by the weekly “Polityka”. It is awarded annually in seven categories: literature, film, theater, classical music, popular music, visual arts and digital culture. According to the editorial declaration, it is a distinction for creators who surprise with their achievements and therefore deserve care, support and promotion. The passport was supposed to be a symbolic pass to the world of great, international art.
Nominated for the “Polityka” Passports, Emi Buchwald is a graduate of the Directing Department of the Film School in Łódź and a documentary course at the Wajda School. She made her debut in 2010 with the short documentary “Brothers”. Her subsequent projects: “Nauka” (2016), “Heimat” (2017) and “Piękna łąka kwietna” (2022) and “Echo” (2023), realized in the Munk Studio, won dozens of awards at festivals in Poland and around the world. This year, her feature-length debut “No ghosts in the apartment on Dobra” premiered at the 50th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.
“It is a natural consequence of her artistic choices so far. It focuses on closeness, tenderness and curiosity of family relationships. The strength of the film is its realistic, almost documentary attentiveness, open to metaphysics,” we read in the justification for the nomination.
The film is the story of four siblings on the threshold of adulthood, who try to maintain closeness, even though each of them faces their own fears, loneliness and emotional problems.
At the festival in Gdynia, the film was considered a revelation of the event. He won, among others: The Golden Claw awarded for “courage in form and content”, awards for the best direction and supporting female role for Karolina Rzepa. Journalists chose “There are no ghosts in the apartment on Dobra” as the best film of the festival. Attention was paid to tenderness and empathy, delightful acting, and natural-sounding dialogues. It was emphasized that the film had a positive tone, and the story wisely listened to human fear and was understanding of the suffering of adolescence.
“This year was special for me and probably a breakthrough. I hope that it will lead to more good years. Today, working as an artist in Poland is difficult if you want to do your own work. But on the other hand, the fact that I could make a film like I did means that there is a chance,” says the director in an interview with “Polityka”.
Now, the “Polityka” Passport may now join the Gdynia awards and the Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the Film category received in October. We will find out on Sunday evening, January 11, 2026. The gala will be broadcast on TVP2 and on the Internet, on YouTube and Facebook.
The painting “There are no ghosts in the apartment on Dobra Street” was created in the Munk Studio as part of the program Sixty Minutes financed by the Polish Filmmakers Association with the support of the Polish Film Institute. The co-producers of the film are CANAL+ Polska SA, Masovian and Warsaw Film Fund, Dreamsound Studio, Fireplace and Fixafilm.
The distributor of “There are no ghosts in the apartment on Dobra” is Kino Świat. The film will be released in Polish cinemas on March 13, 2026.