As In the Rearview premieres at Cannes, its director explains how he made a movie about transporting people across the border in his Vw and why he’s rejected the red carpet for a borrowed rug from a bombed home
In the opening month of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, a quarter of the population sought sanctuary elsewhere. Aid organisations estimate that as many as five million people abandoned their homes and fled west for the border. At least 400 went in Maciek Hamela’s van.
Hamela is a 40-year-old documentary film-maker from Warsaw. The van was a Volkswagen Sharan, rented from a local Vietnamese family who wanted to help out. Starting in February last year, and continuing for more than six months, Hamela and his cameramen, Wawrzyniec Skoczylas, Yura Dunay, Marcin Sierakowski and Piotr Grawender made dozens of return trips to Ukraine, liaising with volunteer groups and ferrying the evacuees into Poland.
In the opening month of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, a quarter of the population sought sanctuary elsewhere. Aid organisations estimate that as many as five million people abandoned their homes and fled west for the border. At least 400 went in Maciek Hamela’s van.
Hamela is a 40-year-old documentary film-maker from Warsaw. The van was a Volkswagen Sharan, rented from a local Vietnamese family who wanted to help out. Starting in February last year, and continuing for more than six months, Hamela and his cameramen, Wawrzyniec Skoczylas, Yura Dunay, Marcin Sierakowski and Piotr Grawender made dozens of return trips to Ukraine, liaising with volunteer groups and ferrying the evacuees into Poland.
- 5/26/2023
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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