My house without me

Synopsis

Two women, one house. An intimate story about a Pole and a German placed by war on enemy sides and their parallel lives accidentally brought together. The film reflects on the concepts of invaders, victim, guilt and forgiveness. It confronts different experiences and their paradoxical similarities. It deals with the controversial subject of the post-war accountings. The visual narration is flowing, guided by memories and archives. Traditional documentation confronts experimental use of archival footage in the cinematic impression about displacement.

Director Biography

Magdalena Szymków, journalist and filmmaker, graduated from Wajda School. She is a co-founder of the production company Vezfilm. She has worked for Polish channels TVP and TVN, as well as ARTE/WDR and RAI. For 10 years she worked as correspondent in Italy. For her reportage about immigrants’ condition in Italy she was nominated for the Polish Grand Press Award 2007. In Italy, she was a close collaborator of Ryszard Kapuściński. She is an alumnus of IDFAcademy and Documentary Campus Masterschool.