MY HOUSE WITHOUT ME

MÓJ DOM

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.

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 28
  • Year: 2012

Director: Magdalena Szymków

Script: Magdalena Szymków

DOP: Paweł Chorzępa

Music: Tomasz Wieczorek

Editing: Stefan Paruch

Production company: Wajda Studio

About the director:

Magdalena Szymków

Magdalena Szymków

journalist and filmmaker with a degree in Law (the University of Szczecin), a degree in Journalism (the University of Warsaw) and a diploma of the Wajda School. She has worked for the press and television in Poland and abroad (Gazeta Wyborcza, La Repubblica, TVP, TVN, Arte/ZDF and RAI). Since 2003 she has been the curator of Ryszard Kapuściński’s photographic exhibitions in Italy. She is a co‑founder of Vezfilm, a British production company. She lives in Amsterdam.

At festivals:

Neissen IFF, Zittau/Groshennersdorf, Germany , (competition)

Women Media Arts and Film Festival, Australia , (competition)

FIPA New Talents Campus, France , (screening)

International Migration, Integration, and Social Cohesion Annual Conference, The Netherlands, (competition)

T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival 2012, Poland, 2012 (competition)

Seen&Heard Film Festival Sydney, Australia, 2013 (competition)

Bradford International Film Festival , UK, 2013 (competition)

Association for Study of NAtionalities World Convension Film Lineup, New York, USA, 2013 (screening)

Almaty International Film Festival “Shaken’s Stars-2013, Kazakhstan, 2013 (competition)

International Short Film Festival Kharkov Lilac, Ukraine, 2013 (competition)

Festival of Migrant Film, Slovenia, 2013 (Best Short Film)

Dokufest Kosovo, 2013 (competition)

Cambridge Film Festival, UK, 2013 (competition)

12th St. Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films Beginning, Russia, 2013 (competition)

Suchitra Short Film Festival, Bangalore, , 2013 (competition)

5th Dokubazaar, Slovenia, 2013 (screening)

Play Poland Film Festival, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, UK , 2013 (screening)

Mumbai Women IFF, Mumbai, India , 2013 (competition)

22nd DokumentArt Film Festival, Germany, 2013 (competition)

Tashkent International Film Forum Golden Guepard, Uzbekistan , 2013 (competition)

MiradasDoc, Canary Islands, 2013 (competition)

Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013 (screening)

Cinema Verite - Iran International Documentary FF, Iran, 2013 (competition)

24th Flickerfest - International Short FF, Australia, 2014 (competition)

Sguardi Altrove, WIFF, Italy , 2014 (competition)

Women in Film and Television, WOW Film Festival, Australia, 2014 (Best International Documentary WOW Award)

Women Film Festival, USA , 2014 (competition)

IFEMA WIFF, Sweden, 2014 (competition)

17th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2014 (screening)

26th FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2016 (competition)

Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)