MY NAME IS JULITA

NAZYWAM SIĘ JULITA

“My name is Julita, I’m thirty years old, eleven years ago my closest family was murdered”. The eponymous protagonist, Julita (Marta Ścisłowicz), makes an attempt to join a programme for prison mediators. That is how she finds a way to tell her story in a women’s prison, even though she knows that her mother (Aleksandra Konieczna), who does not want to stay in touch with her, was placed there.

  • Genre: Live action
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 28
  • Year: 2017
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Filip Dzierżawski

Script: Piotr Borkowski, Filip Dzierżawski

DOP: Adam Palenta

Editing: Wojciech Rawecki Jr

Production company: Studio Munka

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About the director:

Filip Dzierżawski

Filip Dzierżawski

Director and screen writer. He is a graduate of the Film Directing Department at the Film and Television Academy in Warsaw and Social Psychology at the Warsaw School of Social Psychology. He has written the script of and directed the documentary film about the supporters of Legia Football Club Fanatics (2011) and a television culture programme ‘Łossskot’. He makes music videos and television commercials. Love is his debut as a film director.

At festivals:

57. Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (competition)

26th Art Film Fest, Slovakia, 2018 (competition)

9th ONE Country ONE Film International Festival, France, 2018 (competition)

Open Place Film Festival, Latvia, 2018 (Best Cinematography)

24th International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece, 2018 (competition)

36th Festival Tous Courts of Aix-en-Provence, France, 2018 (competition)

Sardinia Film Festival 2019, Italy, 2019 (competition)