LIDIA DUDA

director of the film “Forest”

Documentary film director and screenwriter. Her latest film “The Fledglings” (2022) won the Marco Zucchi Award in the Semaine de la critique section at the 2022 Locarno Film Festival, as well as four awards at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival in Poland. She is a two-time Grand Prix winner at the Kraków Film Festival for “Hercules” (2005) and “Entangled” (2012), and has won Grand Prix at film festivals in Chicago, New York, Houston, Istanbul, Mexico City, Moscow, Banff, Guangzhou and Prague. Winner of the Grand Press Award for “U nas w Pietraszach” (2002). She is a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association, the Polish Film Academy and the Guild of Polish Documentary Directors.