VERTIGO is an independent production and film service company founded by Rafael Lewandowski in 2007 and based in Warsaw. His team is flexible, creative and multilingual. It offers the possibility of cooperation and funding assistance in Poland from location scouting, casting, budgeting and production planning. Our goal is to develop co-production projects between France and Poland.  
 

 

Coproductions:
 
2010 
THE MOLE
by Rafael Lewandowski 
(fiction feature film)

With Metro Films, KUIV Productions, Non Stop Film Service, Le Fresnoy and the Regional Film Fund "Silesia Film". Cofinanced by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and the City of Bielsko Biala.

Released in Poland on 5 August 2011 (distribution: Kino Swiat). 

Released in France on 12 September 2012 (distribution: Mondivina).

International distribution: Wide Management (label Eye On Films, sales in about 15 countries). 

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2013 

MARC MINKOWSKI IS DIRECTING THE SINFONIA WARSZAWA 

by Rafael Lewandowski & Jean-Pierre Loisil

(TV recording of a symphony concert)

With Fido Films, for Mezzo.

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MINKOWSKI | SAGA

by Rafael Lewandowski 

(feature-length documentary)

With Fido Film.

Cofinanced by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commision, the Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of Poland.

International distribution: New Morning Films.

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2017 

OUT OF THE LIMELIGHT

by Rafael Lewandowski 

(feature-length documentary)

With Zygmunt Zaleski Stichting.

Released in Poland on September 2017 (Cinema distribution: Tumult, Camerimage).

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2022

NOT ALL OF ME WILL DIE

by Joanna Grudzinska

(feature-length documentary)

With Les Films du Bilboquet (France).

Cofinanced by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commision in Poland, the CNC, Procirep and Pictanovo in France.

World premiere at Marseille International Documentary Festival 2022 (GNCR Competition).​

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CHILDREN OF CHAOS

by Agnes Pizzini & Julien Johan

(feature-length documentary)

With Elephant Adventures (France), Kwassa Films (Belgium).

Cofinanced by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and Canal + in Poland, the CNC, Procirep and France Television in France.​

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2026

THE LAST GENERATION OF YIDDISHLAND

by Jonathan Hayoun

(feature-length documentary)

With Zadig Productions (France), ARTE France, FINA, TVP, Lutetia.

In production.

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DEFENDING EUROPE

by Ruth Zylberman

(3x52' docu series)

With Zadig Productions (France), ARTE France, TVP.

In production.

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WANDA

by David Teboul

(feature-length documentary)

With 10.7 Productions (France), ARTE France, TVP.

In production.

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ENIGMA

by Rafael Lewandowski

(3x52' docu series) 

With Zadig Productions, Factstory (France), Manufactura Pictures (Luxembourg) Vodalia, Lutetia Films (Poland), ARTE GEIE, TVP.

In development.

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STRENGTH THROUGH JOY

by Camille Juza & Gabriel Darin

(3 x 52')

With Schuch Productions (France)

In development.

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Executive Productions:

 

2013 

LUBLIN'S CULTURAL CENTER 

(promotional film)

 

2016

TESTIMONIES 

Zygmunt Zaleski Stichting, Amsterdam

(production of 25 interviews in Poland, Switzerland, France and the USA)

 

2018 

TESTIMONIES

Fundacja im. Zbigniewa Herberta 

(production of 20 interviews in Poland, Germany, England, Italy, France and the USA)

 

2019 

LEGACY

by Yann Athus Bertrand.

For Hope Production and M6. 

(production of documentary sequences in Poland)

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2024

AGAINST HISTORY

by Joanna Grudzinska

For Zadig Productions & ARTE

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2025

A QUIET MAN

by Rafael Lewandowski

For Vodalia Films

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SOUNDS OF WARSAW, AND THE PALACE ON THE ISLE

by Christophe Maillet

For Schuch Productions & ARTE

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MITA, CENTRO CULTURALE

by Rafael Lewandowski

For Fondazzione Tassara

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ZYGMUNT ZALESKI STICHTING

by Rafael Lewandowski

For Zygmunt Zaleski Stichting

 

2026

‘GYPSIES’: A EUROPEAN GENOCIDE

by Catherine Bernstein 

For Kuiv Productions

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Distribution:

 

HEARINGS

by Rafael Lewandowski 

Yenta Production, La Femis and Cités Television 

(feature-length documentary, 2000)

 

MINKOWSKI | SAGA

by Rafael Lewandowski  

(feature-length documentary, 2013)

 

MARC MINKOWSKI IS DIRECTING THE SINFONIA WARSZAWA 

by Rafael Lewandowski & Jean-Pierre Loisil

(TV recording of a symphony concert, 2013)

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OUT OF THE LIMELIGHT

by Rafael Lewandowski 

(feature-length documentary)

With Zygmunt Zaleski Stichting.

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VERTIGO

Słupecka 11/5

02-309 Warsaw

PL 113 244 30 83

vertigo@raflewand.com