After directing several short films since 2009, Bohdanowicz made her
feature film directorial debut in 2016 with
Never Eat Alone. The film follows a lonely grandmother as she tries to reconnect with an ex-boyfriend from her youth. After premiering at the
Vancouver International Film Festival, Her second feature film,
Maison du Bonheur, which profiles 77-year-old Juliane Sellam, a French
astrologer living in
Montmartre, was a finalist for the
Rogers Best Canadian Film Award at the
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2018. The film premiered at the
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema on April 23, 2017, and had a limited theatrical release in the U.S. and Canada in 2018.
The Globe and Mails Barry Hertz named the film one of his top 10 films of 2018, writing "A supremely thoughtful and careful study of one elderly Parisian woman, Maison du bonheur is as revealing as it is honest and sincere," adding, "This is a film to seek out and cherish.” '''
Glenn Kenny of The New York Times'' selected the film as a Critics' Pick and called it "a profound delight." Her collaborations with actress
Deragh Campbell have screened at festivals around the world. Since 2016, Campbell has portrayed the character of Audrey Benac in six of Bohdanowicz's feature-length and short films—
Never Eat Alone (2016), ''
Veslemøy's Song (2018), MS Slavic 7 (2019), Point and Line to Plane (2020), A Woman Escapes
(2022), and Measures for a Funeral (2024); Campbell co-directed MS Slavic 7''.
Never Eat Alone premiered in the Future//Present section of the 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival;
MS Slavic 7 had its world premiere at the
69th Berlin International Film Festival and screened at the annual
New Directors/New Films Festival.
Point and Line to Plane premiered at the
Marseille International Film Festival in July 2020 and subsequently screened at the
Toronto International Film Festival, the
New York Film Festival, the
Festival de nouveau cinéma in Montreal, and the
Vienna International Film Festival, among others.
Measures for a Funeral, an expansion of ''Veslemøy's Song'', follows Benac once again as she researches the life and career of classical violinist
Kathleen Parlow. The film premiered in the Centrepiece program at the
2024 Toronto International Film Festival. In a 2020 interview with film website Seventh Row, Bohdanowicz revealed that despite directing and editing several feature films, she has never written a screenplay. That year, she also directed a short documentary film titled
The Hardest Working Cat in Show Biz, which was released online by
Filmmaker. In 2021, she was one of the participants in
John Greyson's experimental short documentary film
International Dawn Chorus Day. == Accolades ==