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After losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined.

In late 1943, an American squad engages in a skirmish with German soldiers along the Winter Line in central Italy. As artillery shells begin to rain down, the Americans must honor the rules of war and protect their wounded prisoners. Huddled together in a cave and made to see the enemy as human, the soldiers wrestle with unimaginable moral questions that lie outside the boundaries of nationality and allegiance.

Grodno, an Eastern borderland of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bombard the city. One of the bomb hits the school of Leoś, Ewelina and Tadek. Their world of innocent and care-free childhood, playing and first loves ends literally and figuratively. Leoś is 12. He is a Jewish boy fascinated with the Polish independence movement tradition.
On September 17, 1939, according to the Soviet and German pact the Red Army invades Poland and plans to capture Grodno. The city begins a hopeless fight against the occupants. The small troops are supported by civilians, mainly schoolchildren. The children and adolescents are the ones who heroically defend the city and fall victims of exceptional cruelty of the occupants.

"The Eaglets” is the first movie devoted to the Soviet army invasion of Poland in September, 1939.

On faith, hope and sacrifice.

He wanted to flee from the world into a monastery, but he had to flee in order to save life itself and so that he could understand how brutal political power twists character and at the same time gives the last chance to resist and to save a loved one.

Cornelia shows the last minutes of the life of a Dutch female resistance fighter while she is being lead to the place of her execution. She asks herself: how did it come this far? Did I make the right choices?

A young woman prepares a romantic dinner with champagne and candles to celebrate the fifth wedding anniversary with her husband. But suddenly their cheerful conversation is interrupted by the sounds of sirens and their bursts of laughter by the explosions of bombs.

On Christmas Eve, a lonely girl and a dog who has lost its owner meet each other and become friends. Then she takes the dog to her home - or, rather, the ruins of her apartment where her family used to live before the outbreak of the war. A story about a sudden friendship that unites in the most difficult times.

The timeless story of a human's experience following trauma, the struggles they and their loved ones can experience, and the hope and freedom available at the end of a journey of process and vulnerability. This is Far Away Man.

[A version with French subtitles is also available]