Magdalena Szymków :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Magdalena Szymków

About the artist

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. Currently she is working on development of MEDIA supported project “You have to be there,” a coproduction of Vezfilm and Otter Film (Oscar nominated for “Rabbit à la Berlin” in 2010).

Films

My house without me / Mój dom, 28'

Wolves’ eyes shine in the night, surround you, seemingly multitudinous. War has many facets, abduction and displacement have opposite causes. Janina, born in eastern Poland, found herself in the Soviet Union after the German-Russian division of the country, was deported to Siberia at the age of ten and six years later to Stettin, which was now called Szczecin. This is where Annemarie lived, until Janina arrived, when she moved to the West with the Germans. Both women have ceased to weep. They have wept enough during their lives.