On The Way Home


his story is about a journey, a relationship and returning home. He’s already been driving his truck for twenty years throughout Russia while she waits for him at home. He is alone on the road. She’s together with her beloved pet, faithful friend and protector Irbis. This could continue for longer if he wasn’t terminally ill.



Sergey Kachkin


Sergey Kachkin is a Russian film director and producer who received his education in Moscow at the Higher School of Journalism and Documentary Film. Since 2006 he has made several documentaries as a producer, film director and DOP. The films have been screened and awarded both in Russia and abroad. Two of his films were shown in the USA in 2007-2008 as a part of the Cultural Leaders/Filmmakers Program. In 2008 he took part in the Aristotle Workshop supported by Arte. He spent a month in a Romanian village filming gypsies. In 2009-2010 he took part in the DOXPRO Workshop in St. Petersburg, led by Tue Steen Müller, international documentary consultant, and Iikka Vehkalahti from YLE TV2 Documentaries. In 2010 Kachkin received an EEFA grant to develop and finish his feature length documentary On the Way Home, a film about a long-distance truck driver, his wife and her beloved pet. His next documentary, Perm-36, a Territory of Freedom, is about political repression during Soviet times and modern-day Russia.