Przekładaniec · Copernicon 2026
The first edition of a film festival taking place as part of Copernicon and bringing together different worlds, genres and forms of fantastic cinema.
Przekładaniec will take place in Toruń on 18–20 September 2026. Its programme brings together Polish and international fantastic cinema, the Short Film Competition, Special Screenings, meetings, talks, lectures and other accompanying events.
The festival promotes fantastic cinema in its broadest sense, supports short filmmakers and emerging artistic movements, and creates a meeting place for filmmakers, audiences, critics and the film industry.
The festival takes its name from Przekładaniec, a 1968 television film directed by Andrzej Wajda from a screenplay by Stanisław Lem.
Just as the film combined science fiction, grotesque and satire, the festival layers science fiction, fantasy, horror, animation and experimental cinema into unexpected combinations.
Przekładaniec takes place as part of Copernicon, Toruń’s festival devoted to the fantastic. This places cinema within a broader conversation about literature, science, culture and imagination.
(Father) Festival Director
The originator of the festival, known online as Człowiek z popkultury (The Pop Culture Man). He has been publishing in the press since 1986 and served as editor-in-chief of Nowa Fantastyka, Miś and the naEKRANIE portal. He has published several books, including guides to Bond and vampires. He likes sequels.
kamil@przekladaniec.com
Artistic Director
A graduate of film studies and audiovisual media at the University of Łódź, as well as film and television production management at the Łódź Film School. Production manager, director and co-creator of film productions. An online creator writing and recording about pop culture, and editor-in-chief of the Immersja portal. He has written for EKRANY and CD-Action, among others. A recipient of an artistic scholarship from the City of Łódź and a Script Fiesta award for a drama series concept.
filip@przekladaniec.com
Visual Director
Fascinated by technology, the future and how one will shape the other. Founder of the Immersja portal. At the cinema, he most enjoys venturing beyond the mainstream: from science fiction and spaghetti westerns to every variety of B-movie, C-movie and lower. By day, he is lost somewhere between technical detail and creativity.
grzegorz@przekladaniec.com
Deputy Artistic Director
A student at the Łódź Film School. A lover of film festivals, underground music and the work of Radu Jude. His main interest within fantastic cinema is science fiction, and he could watch films such as The Pillar, Fantastic Planet and Test pilota Pirxa on repeat.
szymon@przekladaniec.com
Deputy Organiser
Raised on Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek and trash horror, he is a lover of musicals and procedural series, as well as a secret reality television fan. A graduate of the University of Łódź and the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice, he is currently a student at the Łódź Film School. He posts on social media as Komiks On, and his writing can also be found on Kolorowe Zeszyty and Komiksopedia.
wiktor@przekladaniec.com
Promotion and Social Media Specialist
A film production student at the Łódź Film School. She worked on two editions of NH and AFF, creating communication between the festivals and their audiences. She co-created a communication strategy for NCKF and is generally fascinated by all things social media. She loves imaginative films in which everyday reality escapes familiar patterns, especially when carefree fun and omnipresent magic take over. Her goal is to make Przekładaniec heard about on social media and beyond.
dorota@przekladaniec.com
Events and Filmmaker Relations Coordinator
An enthusiast of cinema in all its forms, a hater of mediocre productions. 1/10 or 10/10, as long as it stays with you. Always looking for new approaches and unconventional techniques. An editor at Telewizja Studencka Styk and a student at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. When he is neither watching films nor calculating integrals, he pours and marvels at craft beer, his second love after cinema.
lukasz@przekladaniec.com