CILECT (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision) is the International Association of Cinema, Audiovisual and Media Schools associating over 180 schools and educational audiovisual institutions from 65 countries around the world, including the Lodz Film School.

Every year, with the votes of representatives of member schools, the Association awards its CILECT PRIZES in 3 student film categories: fiction, documentary and animated films.

The film I’M HERE by Julia Orlik received as many as 101 votes out of 340 possible!

See the details: cilect.org

I’M HERE
An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he's doing his best to relieve her suffering, which is getting worse day by day. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work in the hospital and family life. Everyone has a different view on how to properly care for the sick, which often causes arguments. A film about caring for an elderly, paralyzed woman.

Screenplay, direction, cinematography, animation: Julia Orlik
Sound: Bogdan Klat
Editing: Aleksandra Rosset
Artistic supervision: Mariusz Wilczyński, Joanna Jasińska-Koronkiewicz

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Congratulations, Julia!!!