The year is 2016. All Poles live and breathe the UEFA European Soccer Championship. In the background, there’s disconcerting news about the conflict in Syria and the wave of refugees fleeing to Europe using the Western Balkan route. Julia and Piotr are a well-to-do couple from a big city. After a year of hard work, they’re almost done packing for a richly deserved holiday. But Piotr’s mother has other plans—she asks him to bring his father, a refugee living in a camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, back to Poland. Although he has been estranged from his father for thirty years, and his wife is not very enthusiastic about the idea, Piotr decides to help. The distance between the couple’s apartment in Warsaw and the refugee camps in Greece and Macedonia is nearly two thousand kilometers. The young characters are forced to realize just how close their comfortable lives are to the events they had previously only seen on TV. The socio-political context of Klara Kochańska and Kasper Bajon’s film is the backdrop for a subtle tale of finding one’s identity and stepping outside of one’s comfort zone. It’s a slow and deliberate road movie, written for two voices—that of Julia Kijowska and Piotr Borowski.
Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon
Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon, Julia Kijowska, Piotr Borowski
Zuzanna Kernbach, Julian Kernbac
Julia Kijowska, Piotr Borowski, Dorota Pomykała, Bajram Severdžan, Diana Zamojska
Poland/Czech Republic/Macedonia