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.
Poland, France, Ukraine, 2023, 85 min, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, English, French with English and Bulgarian subtitles
Director: Maciek Hamela
DOP: Yura Dunay, Wawrzyniec Skoczylas, Marcin Sierakowski, Piotr Grawender
Music: Marcin Lenarczyk
Production: Piotr Grawender, Affinity Cine / Maciek Hamela, Pemplum
Director’s Biography:
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.