Pawlikowski’s filmography includes Vaclav Havel (1989) which won the UN Media Peace Prize, From Moscow to Pietushki (1990) which won an Emmy International, the Prix Italia and the Royal Television Society Award for Best Documentary, Dostoevsky’s Travels (1991) which won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Documentary for the second year running, Serbian Epics (1992) which won the Gran Prix in both the Documentary Film Festival in Marseille and the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin (1993), Tripping With Zhirinovsky (1995) which won the Grierson Award for Best British Documentary and the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, The Stringer (1997), Twockers (1998), Last Resort (2001) which won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to British Film, and Best Film at the Edinburgh, Gijon, Motovun and Thessaloniki Film Festivals, together with the European Film of the Year Award from the German Ministry of Culture, and My Summer of Love (2004).

Pawlikowski introduced five of his films at the day-long event, which took place at Magdalen College, Oxford on 14 February 2004, and the programme concluded with a discussion featuring contributions by Professor Ian Christie from the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, Professor Julian Graffy from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, critic and broadcaster Susan Hitch and filmmaker Christopher Mitchell. The discussion was chaired by Anthony Smith, President of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Organised by the Ruskin School of Art and Magdalen College, Oxford and supported by funding from Arts Council England.