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IN THE REARVIEW
by Maciek Hamela
SYNOPSIS
A Polish van traverses the roads of Ukraine. On board, the driver-director and evacuated people, following the Russian invasion. The vehicle becomes a fragile and temporary refuge, a zone of confidences of exiles who have only one objective left, to escape the war.
DETAILS
85 mins
2023
Poland, France, Ukraine
Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, English, French
CREDITS
Directed by Maciek Hamela
Produced by Piotr Grawender, Affinity Cine / Maciek Hamela, Pemplum
Co-Produced by Jean-Marie Gigon, SaNoSi Productions / Anna Palenchuk, 435 Films
With the support of Polish Film Institute
BIOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR - MACIEK HAMELA
Born in Warsaw, Poland, he received a master's degree from Sorbonne University (Paris IV) in French literature and graduated from EICAR. He is a longtime BBC Channel collaborator. A co-creator and a producer of a documentary short film Bless You, for which he received a Doc Alliance Award (Cannes 2021), the short was also presented at Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF. He produced many awarded documentaries such as Convictions (MDR Film Prize for an outstanding Eastern European documentary film at Dok Leipzig IFF 2016). Being a director and a producer of various radio works he has received the Silver Melchior Radio Award in the Polish Radio Reporters National Competition. He produced and co-directed Plan B, a documentary podcast series for Audioteka.
SELECT FESTIVALS
ACID CANNES 2023〡SHEFFIELD DOCFEST 2023 - GRAND JURY AWARD〡TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023〡IDFA 2023〡CPH:DOX 2024〡THESSALONIKI 2024 - AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD - VILNIUS FF 2024 – BEST FILM
PRESS
"Maciek Hamela’s intimate portrait of a life entirely torn apart by war is a heart-wrenching road trip where stories, pain and hopes are shared in the backseat of a van"
"A remarkably delicate documentary"
"A sublimely universal reflection on humanity"
- Modern Times Review
"A gripping social document"
- The Guardian
"A humanist work of wartime psychology"
- POV Magazine
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