Leave No Traces, Poland’s entry for the International Feature Oscar race this year, may be set in the past (1983), but its story is entirely relevant to the modern day.The film, which debuted this year in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, chronicles true events that took place in Poland in 1983, when the country was shaken by the case of a high school student being beaten to death by militia.
Subsequently, the only witness of the beating became the No. 1 enemy of the state.As director Jan P. Matuszyński tell us during Aurum Film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event, the incident at the core of the film provokes viewers to think about the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police last year.
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