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IN THE REARVIEW

POLISH TITLE: SKĄD DOKĄD

The first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. People caught by time and in space, facing an uncertain here and now, choose to abandon what they hold most precious as they climb straight into the dusty van with foreign plates. It traverses tens of thousands of kilometers serving various functions: waiting room, hospital, shelter, zone for confidences and confessions, which are shared among travelers thrown together by chance. In the Rearview is a collective portrait composed of experiences of those who have a single goal: finding a safe haven. In the van, the temporary asylum for all of them, their differences in gender, age, skin tone, physical condition, origin, identity, worldviews and faith drop away. In the Polish and the Ukrainian version of the film’s title - Skąd dokąd and Zvidky kudy, “where from” (звідки / zvidky) and “where to” (куди / kudy) are routine questions asked when trying to break through the numerous checkpoints located throughout the territory of Ukraine.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland, France
RUNNING TIME:
85'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Maciek Hamela
SCRIPT:
Maciek Hamela
DOP:
Wawrzyniec Skoczylas, Yura Dunay, Marcin Sierakowski, Piotr Grawender
EDITOR:
Piotr Ogiński
MUSIC:
Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz
PRODUCTION:
IMPAKT FILM, Maciek Hamela, Piotr Grawender, SaNoSi Productions

Maciek Hamela »

Film and radio producer, director, scriptwriter. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he received a master's degree from Sorbonne University (Paris IV) in French literature. Worked in renovations and as a tour guide, while studying film directing at École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation (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 within the Cannes Docs program (Cannes FF 2021), the short was also presented at Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF. He produced films such as Convictions (MDR Film Prize for an outstanding Eastern European documentary film at Dok Leipzig IFF 2016), Gatherers of Sea Grass, Polonaise or Parquet. Being a director and a producer of various radio works he has received the Silver Melchior Radio Award for the Premiere of the Year 2018 in the Polish Radio Reporters National Competition. He produced and co-directed Plan B, a documentary podcast series for Audioteka.