Marta Dzido

WINNER

Poland-Marta Dzido_CR-Dawid Markiewicz

Biography

MARTA DZIDO – born in 1981; writer, documentary filmmaker and film editor. Graduated from the Polish Film School in Łódź. Author of “A Mark Left by Mom” (2003 – translated into Vietnamese), “The Clam” (2005 – translated into Bulgarian and Vietnamese), “Matrioszka” (2013), “Strawberry season” (2021 – translated into Czech), and a non-fiction book “Women of Solidarity” (2016). Director of photography of the documentary “Underground Women’s State” (2009) and co-director of “Downtown” (2010), a documentary that has won the Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award in 2011. Screenwriter, co-director and editor of “Solidarity according to Women” (2014, Krzysztof Kieslowski Beyond Borders Award, special award of Polish Film Institute) and docudrama “Women Power” (2018).

Nominated book : Frajda

Summary

Her and him. Teenagers from the time before Facebook and Instagram. Madly in love, but avoiding the declaration in the form of the words “I love you” like the plague. Crazy over each other. Shifting each others boundaries in learning about young bodies. Testing emotional reactions. Experiencing all “first times” together.
The history of their romance happens in the 90s of the last century, when love letters were written with a pen on a piece of paper, when the photographs were made on film and to make a phone call you had to queue in front of the phone booth. A world free from immediacy, in which waiting accumulated the tension and longing for one another.
Her and him. Kids who are not afraid to cross the boundaries, who want to experience everything. Most of all they want to know their bodies. The hotness summer is still going on, even when it is winter and everything else is frozen in January. There is a fever of two heroes, their passion, the power of attraction stronger than gravity. Somewhere in the back of their minds there is end of the world, that is to come with the year 2000, when the comet will hit the Earth and the current civilization will fall anyway.
Him and her. Two people in their forties accidentally meet after years and realize that spark of youthful excitement is to be found in them, and the hope is not lost yet. Somewhere in the everyday reality, between cooking dinners for children and subsequent installments of credit, they begin to meet each other and recollect the memories of youthful passion, which at the same time pushed them towards each other and did not let them stay. They tell each other about themselves from years ago. What she remembers of him, and he of her. Their narrations changed over time, individual pieces created different versions of the same story. The heroes start to wonder what if? And face a new question: what would their life look like up till now and on?

Poland

Excerpts

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Special publications
2023

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Anthology
2019