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12.
2025.
Department
Direction
Direction
Artem Rachkelyuk's fiction graduation film, LOOK HOMEWARD, won the Best Screenplay Award at the Potiers Film Festival. This is another international distinction for our graduate's film.
Here is our previous news about film’m selection for the festival: filmschool.lodz.pl/news
Artem Rachkelyuk, our directing graduate, has already won several prestigious awards for his film LOOK HOMEWARD, including the Golden Hobby-Horse and the Golden Dragon at the Krakow Film Festival (which paved the way for the film to compete for an Oscar).
And now the film has received another one: the Best Screenplay Award from the French Poitiers Festival.
Congratulations for the whole crew!
Poitiers Festival Jury Verdict: poitiersfilmfestival.com/palmares-2025
LOOK HOMEWARD
Credits:
screenplay and direction: Artem Rachkelyuk
cinematography: Stefan Żółtowski
editing: Filip Dziuba
production management: Alicja Kusal
cast: Nazarii Bunchuk, Solomiia Kalyna-Osiian, Klaudia Koścista, Michał Grzybowski
artistic supervision: Mariusz Włodarski, Jakub Kijowski
Synopsis: Vlad, a Ukrainian living in Poland with his sister, learns that his father has been drafted into the army. What he tried to ignore suddenly comes back to him with a vengeance.
Artem Rachkelyuk, our directing graduate, has already won several prestigious awards for his film LOOK HOMEWARD, including the Golden Hobby-Horse and the Golden Dragon at the Krakow Film Festival (which paved the way for the film to compete for an Oscar).
And now the film has received another one: the Best Screenplay Award from the French Poitiers Festival.
Congratulations for the whole crew!
Poitiers Festival Jury Verdict: poitiersfilmfestival.com/palmares-2025
LOOK HOMEWARD
Credits:
screenplay and direction: Artem Rachkelyuk
cinematography: Stefan Żółtowski
editing: Filip Dziuba
production management: Alicja Kusal
cast: Nazarii Bunchuk, Solomiia Kalyna-Osiian, Klaudia Koścista, Michał Grzybowski
artistic supervision: Mariusz Włodarski, Jakub Kijowski
Synopsis: Vlad, a Ukrainian living in Poland with his sister, learns that his father has been drafted into the army. What he tried to ignore suddenly comes back to him with a vengeance.