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THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE FOREST

POLISH TITLE: W LESIE SĄ LUDZIE

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A lonely man limps down the road. A truck drives up to him. Several armed men jump out of it. They capture the limping man and transport him to the forest. The only witnesses of the scene are people from a nearby village. Since 2021, situations like these are commonplace on the Polish-Belarussian border of the EU, which is the scene of an ongoing refugee crisis. An animated documentary whose creator happens to live in a town by the border.

TRAILER
GENRE:
documentary / animation
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
10'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Szymon Ruczyński
SCRIPT:
Szymon Ruczyński
DOP:
Szymon Ruczyński
EDITOR:
Szymon Ruczyński
SOUND:
Szymon Kucharski
ANIMATION:
Szymon Ruczyński
PRODUCTION:
Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna

Szymon Ruczyński »

Born in Hajnówka, Poland, in 2000, Szymon Ruczyński is a student of Animation at the Lodz Film School. He grew up in Białowieża, a village in the centre of the ancient Białowieża Forest which is the source of inspiration for his award-winning films “Reason” and “The Wildwood Diptych”. In 2021 and 2022 Szymon participated in bringing humanitarian aid to the refugees hiding in the forest. He uses mixed animation techniques to tell stories about socially relevant problems he witnesses.