Thirty-five unanswered letters written by teenage girls in the 1990s open a conversation with the women they became. The Polish documentary project 35 Letters received the East Doc Platform Award at Baltic Sea Docs 2026 in Riga.
Our Programme Manager Veronika Janatková presented the award to 35 Letters, directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz and produced by Maria Krauss for Plesnar & Krauss Films. The award provides accreditation and access to one-on-one meetings for one team at the next edition of East Doc Platform.
“The East Doc Platform Award goes to a cinematic reply exploring women’s dreams and visions across two generations in 35 Letters,” the jury stated.
35 Letters (dir. Zuzanna Solakiewicz, prod. Maria Krauss – Plesnar & Krauss Films, Poland, 2028)
The discovery of 35 letters to a modelling agency in a folder “Do not reply” sparks a journey across Poland to find the authors - now middle-aged women. They confront their teen-aged dreams just as their own daughters enter adulthood. 35 girls wrote into the future; three decades later the film responds.
