In the Rearview, Maciek Hamela’s documentary about Ukrainians fleeing war in their homeland, won the Grand Jury Award for International Competition tonight at the 30th Sheffield DocFest.
The film premiered in May at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival in Poland before heading to Cannes and then to Sheffield, where it entered competition with eight other documentaries. “This film started as volunteer work,” Hamela noted as he accepted the prize. “I wanted to say thank you for all the support that the U.K.
has given to this amazing humanitarian effort in this war in Ukraine… [It’s] a country that has never been indifferent [to the war].
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Hamela, a Polish filmmaker, promptly volunteered to help evacuate Ukrainian civilians who had become the target of Russian bombing and artillery attacks.
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