April 23 - May 1, 2005

Sleeping in stairways, garbage containers and underground tunnels, the thousands of homeless children living in Moscow's train stations panhandle or prostitute themselves for money and sniff glue to curb hunger and escape from the violent world around them. Still, many of them consider life on the streets preferable to what they experienced at home.

Hanna Polak was born in Katowice, Poland. She studied acting and worked  as a stage performer before beginning her studies at the Moscow School of Cinematography in 2002. In 1997 Polak founded a charity organization in order to help the unprivileged children of Russia: www.activechildaid.org

Andrzej Celinski is a theater director who has worked with the theaters  of Katowice and Wrocław (Poland) and Ostrava (the Czech Republic). He is the winner of the Main Award of the Czech Theater Festival in Prague.