Three Colours: White

Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours: White (Polish: Trzy kolory: Biały; French: Trois couleurs: Blanc) won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival in 1994. The film is the second of the three-film Three Colours trilogy, after Blue (1993) and before Red (1994); the trilogy was Kieślowski's last completed work before his death in 1996 at age fifty-four, and is widely treated as the canonical late-career achievement of European arthouse cinema in the 1990s.

The screenplay is by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, his longtime Warsaw-based legal-trained co-writer who collaborated on every Kieślowski script from No End (1985) through the trilogy. The cast pairs Zbigniew Zamachowski (Polish, in the male lead) with Julie Delpy (French) and Janusz Gajos and Jerzy Stuhr in support; Stuhr in particular had worked with Kieślowski across his entire career and is one of the central faces of the late-Polish-school cinema.

The trilogy's structural conceit (each film built around one of the colours of the French flag and the corresponding republican value (liberty, equality, fraternity)) has been the subject of substantial academic literature. White is the equality panel and the most overtly comic of the three films. Cinematography is by Edward Kłosiński, an established Polish DP who had not previously worked with Kieślowski; Blue and Red were shot by Sławomir Idziak and Piotr Sobociński respectively, with each film deliberately given a distinct visual signature. The trilogy was Polish-French co-financed and shot largely on location in Warsaw and Paris.