WOMAN ON THE ROOF

Genre: Drama
Director: Anna Jadowska
Release date: Poland - 09.12.2022 France - 18.10.2023 Sweden - 24.02.2023

ANATOLIAN LEOPARD

Genre: Feature
Director: Emre Kayis
Release date: 11.09.2021 Toronto International Film Festival Discovery section

HERBERT. BARBARIAN IN THE GARDEN

Genre: Documentary
Director: Rafael Lewandowski
Release date: 4.09.2021 Docs Against Gravity IFF

FROST

Genre: Feature
Director: Sharunas Bartas
Release date: 2017 Cannes Directors' Fortnight

RAGING ROSE

Genre: Drama
Director: Julia Kowalski
Release date: 2015 Cannes ACID

AGNIESZKA

Genre: Animation
Director: Izabela Bartosik-Burkhardt
Release date: 2012 Annecy IFF

ESTERHAZY

Genre: Animation
Director: Izabela Plucinska
Release date: 2010 Annecy IFF

WOMAN ON THE ROOF

Release date: Poland - 09.12.2022 France - 18.10.2023 Sweden - 24.02.2023

ANATOLIAN LEOPARD

Release date: 11.09.2021 Toronto International Film Festival Discovery section

HERBERT. BARBARIAN IN THE GARDEN

Release date: 4.09.2021 Docs Against Gravity IFF

FROST

Release date: 2017 Cannes Directors' Fortnight

RAGING ROSE

Release date: 2015 Cannes ACID

AGNIESZKA

Release date: 2012 Annecy IFF

ESTERHAZY

Release date: 2010 Annecy IFF



PROJECTS

Our selected projects


WOMAN ON THE…

Dir. Anna Jadowska - 2022, PL/FR/SE, 95', Drama
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DISCO BOY

Dir. Giacomo Abbruzzese - 2023, FR/PL/IT, 105' - Feature
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THE THREAD

Dir. Philip Martin Lacroix - 2023, PL/FR, 20', Drama
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COMRADES

Dir. Olivier Patté - 2024, PL/FR/LUX/BE, 90', Animation…
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UNDER PARIS

Dir. Corinne Garfin - 2024, FR/BE/PL, 90', Survival
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EXTREMA RATIO

Dir. Philip Martin Lacroix - 2025, FR/PL/IT, 100',…
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POLISH FROM…

Dir. Rafael Lewandowski - 2025, PL/FR, 52', Documentary
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ABOUT US

Information about us and our work


Donten & Lacroix Films

Polish production company founded by Maria Blicharska and Monika Sajko-Gradowska in 2006 in Warsaw with the aim to produce films of high artistic and cultural value for international audiences. The company has collaborated with major European companies as well US documentary producers from S.Spielberg Shoah Foundation. Our last two feature films premiered in Cannes: FROST by S. Bartas (Director's Fortnight 2017), RAGING ROSE by J. Kowalski (ACID 2015) and have been acclaimed by international critics. 

MARIA BLICHARSKA 
Producer specializing in European co-productions, founder of Blick Productions in Paris in 2015 and Donten & Lacroix Films in Warsaw in 2006. Maria has two Master’s degrees in Cultural Management, and Literature. She also gradueted from the European School of Business in Strasbourg. She did post-graduated studies at three National film schools, La Fémis, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and WRiTV in Poland. She started working in the film industry in 2002 as line producer for independent European companies, and for ARTE, Canal + Poland, TVP, TVN as well as for American directors and producers. She has participated in over 35 projects (feature films, documentaries and animations) awarded at international film festivals. 

MONIKA SAJKO-GRADOWSKA 
Monika is the second generation of her family to work in the Polish film industry (doughter of Jerzy Sajko, Production Designer). Monika began her career in 1988 as an Assistant Costume Designer, then main Costume Designer, Art Director, Production Designer and, since the creation of D&L Films in 2006, Producer (Esterhazy, Agnieszka, Frost, Raging Rose). Her feature film filmography includes : Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”, Krzysztof Zanussi’s “The Touch”, “Stella Stellaris” directed by Robert Sigl and “Nachste Woche Ist Frieden” by Peter Schulze–Rohr, “Die Stunde Der Offiziere” by Hans –Erich Viet, “The Hunting”, “The Magic Tree” by Andrzej Maleszka, “Killer II, “Vinci” by Juliusz Machulski, “Saviour Square" by Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze, “Week In the Life of a Man”, “Big Animal” (based on Kieslowski’s script) by Jerzy Stuhr. Besides being Producer for D&L Films, Monika continues working as Production Designer for international tv commercials with such directors as Roar Uthaug, Devon Dixon, Reynald Grosset, Andreas Nilsson, Darren Aronofsky. 
Member of KIPA, EURODOC, EAVE, ACE PRODUCERS, EFA 
PRODUCER ON THE MOVE Cannes 2017

CONTACT

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Donten & Lacroix Films


Warsaw
Email:
biuro@dontenlacroix.eu

Numery telefonów:
(0048) 516 516 606 (0048) 515 903 636

Adres:
02-790 Warsaw, Pietraszewicza-Lota 1/3 street our offices are located : 02-551 Warsaw ul. Lowicka 44

Paris
Email:
maria@dontenlacroix.eu

Telephone numbers:
(0033) 9 81 06 92 79

Adress:
75011 Paris 26, Rue des Trois Bornes

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