Marta Pajek

Marta Pajek is a Polish animation director who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, studying in Jerzy Kucia's animated film studio, and later trained with Priit Pärn at the Turku Arts Academy in Finland. Her early shorts include After Apples (2004), Nextdoor (2005) and Sleepincord (2011). Her Impossible Figures trilogy began with part II (2016), which won more than 20 awards, including the Grand Prize in Stuttgart. Part III competed at Cannes in 2018, and the closing part I (2021) was co-produced by Animoon and the National Film Board of Canada.