Camérimage 2025

The 33rd Camerimage Festival is currently taking place in Toruń, Poland. Once again this year, the festival highlights very few women cinematographers. Here are the numbers for the 2025 edition:

Main Competition

14 films are in this competition, 3 are shot by women : 21%.

Documentary Feature Competition

6 films are in this competition, none are shot by a woman : 0%.

Polish Feature Film Competition

5 films are in this competition, only 1 is shot by a woman : 20%.

Director's Debuts Competition

10 films are in this competition, 3 are shot by women : 30%.

Cinematographer's Debuts Competition

7 films are in this competition, one of which is shot by two cinematographers (one man and one woman). Out of 8 cinematographers in total, 2 are women : 25%.

Across all feature-length competitions, 42 films are selected, and 8 of them are shot by a woman. This means that 19% of the feature films are photographed by a female cinematographer for the 2025 edition of Camerimage, representing a 12% increase compared to 2024.

Documentary Short Films Competition

7 films are in this competition, and none of them are shot by a woman, meaning 0%.

Music Videos Competition

15 films are in this competition, 3 of them are shot by women, including one duo, which represents 19%.

Student Shorts and Student Art Films Competition

23 films are in this competition, 5 are shot by women : 22%.

Girl, de Qi Shu, photographié par Jing-Pin Yu