Production Year

Countries of productions

Poland, Lithuania, Netherlands

Film Type

Documentary

Directors

Maciej J. Drygas

Producers

Vita Żelakeviciute/Poland Rasa Miśkinyte/Lithuania,

Cinematographer

none

Editors

Rafał Listopad

Sound Designer

Saulius Urbanavicius

List of film festival

38th IDFA, Netherlands (2024) | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia

Awards

Best Film, International IDFA Competition (2024) | Main Prize for Best Use of Archive Footage, UnArchive Found Footage Fest, Rome

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Film Synopsis

Trains' is a found-footage documentary built entirely from archive footage and sound design, creating a collective portrait of people in 20th-century Europe. A train compartment becomes a space where individuals are briefly removed from their everyday lives, accompanied by hope or its absence. The film traces recurring historical cycles as railway carriages fill with soldiers, evacuees, prisoners, and ordinary passengers across decades of conflict.