Moments after winning an Oscar, Maciek Szczerbowski reflected on his parents fleeing Poland decades ago in search of a better life in Canada.
“My mother and my father packed two suitcases and abandoned their entire life, packed me and my little brother into a crappy Yugoslavian car, and escaped two weeks before the Russians came in,” said the Montreal-based director in a phone interview from backstage at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
“If they could see that the country they chose for us to live in is this happy with me, it would have moved me to tears. If my mother were to know this, it would move her to tears.”
Szczerbowski and filmmaking partner Chris Lavis had just won the…