'They wanted their accounts to be heard': the film-maker who drove 400 Ukrainians to safety

As In the Rearview premieres at Cannes, its director explains how he made a movie about transporting people across the border in his VW and why he's rejected the red carpet for a borrowed rug from a bombed home In the opening month of Russia's attack on Ukraine, a quarter of the population sought sanctuary elsewhere. Aid organisations estimate that as many as five million people abandoned their homes and fled west for the border. At least 400 went in Maciek Hamela's van. Hamela is a 40-year-old ...