Border Crossing

Poland2019fiction15'Konkurs polski (2019)

Hot summer of 1989. The humming of grasses, the buzzing of bees and the never-ending queue at the Polish-Czechoslovak border. After many hours of waiting, a three-person family eventually reaches the border control point. Their tired daughter’s moaning is increasing and the parents find it more and more difficult to bear the tension. What do they fear the most? What are they carrying in the trailer? The director and scriptwriter, Agnieszka Chmura, tells the story of Poland under communism from the child’s perspective. A minor episode, without any victimology or politics, shows the everyday life of many inhabitants of the Eastern Bloc.