There are mines here.

My name is Maciek Hamela and I'm the director of In The Rearview .

In The Rearview is a film about refugees fleeing the war, the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine and seeking safety while being driven in a dusty van by a complete stranger.

It's a film that tells the human side of the war, how the war creeps into our ordinary daily lives and alters them forever.

And here we're going to talk about this particular scene with Sophia, who with her family I picked up in a small military town called Desna, north of Kyiv.

We got to know each other with Sophia pretty well.

But since their family was not prepared for what they wanted to do next, I was really busy on the phone trying to get them a good accommodation that could fit them all.

And while I was doing that, I asked Marcin who was driving with me and holding the camera, if he could play something just to keep the attention of Sophia, who was really eager to talk to me and wanted to be in touch all the time, but I just couldn't do it at that moment.

And I just thought about it as something that he's going to do to let me make a few phone calls.

But what he actually did was he didn't let go of the camera.

He kept it rolling while he started playing 'Paper, Rock, Scissors' with Sophia.

She's permanently scared of planes.

Mom, I hear them coming.

Are they coming?

What if they drop a bomb on us?

We'll die, that's all.

We won't die.

I'm not here.

She hid.

I'm not here.

Rock, paper, scissors.

And a gun.

No.

This is how the gun looks.

[Maciek] And of course the gun comes in and it destroys the whole game because it wins with everything, and in that particular way, it's also very symbolic.

Everything that's there, the reaction of the grandmother, of Sophia, the mother who are terrified about her using the gun in such a game and so consciously using it.

So this scene is important in a way where it shows really how war comes in and alters the lives of these kids.

And it shows also how much they understand of what's going on around them much more than we would think.

This film was also meant as a particular call to action.

To invite viewers, living sometimes very far away from any kind of conflicts, to just imagine themselves for a very short time as if they were one of the passengers in that van on one of those seats.

Because it's not a film that talks uniquely about the war in Ukraine.

It's a film that could talk about any kind of war.

Because after all, the Ukrainians we see in In The Rearview , they're ordinary, they're not much different from the lives that we live in... in Poland, UK, or the US.

The sea!

In summer we can come back here and jump straight in the water!

We'll come back here when the war's over.

Yes, mom?

Absolutely, I promise.

To the sea!

Let's go to the sea!