International Competition

‘Sidetrack’ is a film about people united by a specific and a bit forgotten form of spending free time on train holidays. We meet people of different age - a child, youth and also elderly people. Scenes of their holidays form a mosaic of different characters and memoirs. Situations and dialogues which seem to be insignificant, illustrate a human being’s struggle in life. The pictures were taken in Hel - the last wagon town of this kind in Poland. The motif of road in this document is a metaphor of life and passing of time. ‘Sidetrack’ is a cordial, sometimes funny and touching film. It’s a film about the colors of life, which turns out to be only a short stop, a moment, a side-track.