In the Rearview (2023)

Original title

Skąd dokąd

Directed by

Maciek Hamela

Genre

documentary film

Country

France, Poland

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

12

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary follows a van driver evacuating people from war-torn Ukraine. The film captures the brief moments of safety and uncertainty inside the vehicle as passengers share their stories of escape.

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What happens

In the Rearview (Polish: Skąd dokąd, Ukrainian: «Звідки куди», romanized: Zvidky kudy) is a 2023 documentary feature film directed by Maciek Hamela. It is about a van, that traverses the roads of Ukraine with the driver-director and evacuated people, following the Russian invasion. The vehicle becomes a fragile and temporary refuge of exiles whose only objective is to escape the war. It is a co-production between Poland, France and Ukraine. In the Rearview has made it to the shortlist of 15 films for the 96th Academy Awards® in the Best Documentary Feature Film category and is nominated for the 26th Polish Film Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Film category. In the Rearview debuted at 2023's Millennium Docs Against Gravity festival, where it won the main prize in the Polish Competition and the Arthouse Cinema Association award, and then had its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Since then, it has been presented at over 50 festivals in Poland and abroad, receiving the Grand Jury Prize in the International Competition at Sheffield DocFest, which made it eligible to apply to the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, or main awards in Odesa, Zurich, Hamburg, and Chicago. It was also presented at Toronto Film Festival where it had its North American premiere and at DMZ International Documentary Film Festival in South Korea where it had its Asian premiere. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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