In the Rearview reçoit le Grand Prix au Vilnius International Film Festival !
Maciek Hamela’s documentary was awarded the Best Film Award at the 29th edition of VIFF, a festival held annually in Vilnius, Lithuania, which showcases documentary and fiction works.
“One car, one destination, one pain, shared by many: The idea of filming people fleeing a war-torn country and preserving their stories and experiences is formally convincing. But above all, it is deeply human. Because it is the director himself who drives the getaway car. In the backseat of the vehicle, the refugees talk about what they had to leave behind – their house, their animals, their family and their belief in a peaceful life – filling it with the fate of an entire nation. On its way out, it passes ruins, soldiers and tanks. In its rearview mirror you can see more than just a destroyed country – it also shows destroyed hope. But at least its passengers managed to escape.” — Selected by the Jurors: Turkish actor Elit İşcan, Lithuanian film producer Klementina Remekaitė, Jenni Zylka, head of the Berlinale’s German Cinema Perspective department, Polish film journalist Marta Bałaga and filmmaker Paweł Łoziński.
The documentary is available on DVD or on our VOD platform SaNoSi.live.
