Quiet Crossing

45,000 sections of reinforced concrete - three tons each.
 Nearly 300 watchtowers., over 250 dog runs, twenty bunkers.
 Sixty-five​ miles of anti-vehicle trenches—signal wire, barbed wire, beds of nails. Over 11,000 armed guards.
 A death strip of sand, well-raked to reveal footprints. 200 ordinary people shot dead following attempts to escape the communist regime.


96 miles of concrete wall. Families divided, loved ones lost…

"Quiet Crossing is a strong emotional, political story filmed by the Film BA students at the University of Westminster/Westminster Film School (London). It is a 1967 story of East German students, opponents of the communist regime, who are trying to emigrate to West Germany hidden at the back of a food delivery truck. They must remain quiet at the time of arrival at the border crossing point, or they will be discovered and executed for their anti-political activities. Anna's and Yans's sleeping baby on board is a time bomb that can explode at any time, and something unexpected happens..."

Director Biography - Patrik Krivanek

Patrik Krivanek is a Czech film Director, Producer, and Writer. He studied Film at the University of Westminster (Westminster Film School) in the UK, where he was also the Vice President of the Film Society and Director of the Westminster Film Festival. He previously studied at the Film & TV School Wales - the University of South Wales (formerly Newport Film School). During his studies, he became a member of BAFTA Wales, a member of the British Film Institute (BFI) and a member of the Royal Television Society (RTS), and also worked on Britain's Got Talent. His experience includes working on many short and feature films, high-end commercials, and television programs. In 2017, he worked as an Assistant Director on the Czech feature film Usmevy smutnych muzu (Smiles of Sad Men), which launched into cinemas in 2018 with an attendance of 180 thousand people in the first weeks. In 2019, the film was awarded the Czech Lion Award (Film Fans Award). The film is also a winner of a total of four NASK 2018 awards granted by Czech and Moravian cinema operators - for best actor, best adaptation, best director, the best film of the year, and among the five best Czech movies from which academics chose a nominee for the Oscars. Together with director Dan Svatek, he is now producing a new film, Dve slova jako klic (Two Words as the Key), to be shot all around the world (USA, India, Indonesia, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania and Poland in 2020/21. This film was promoted at The Marché du Film Producers Network in Cannes during the Cannes Film Festival 2019. Additionally, he is an award-winning filmmaker. Many of the films he scripted, directed, or produced either won or were nominated for awards at the internationally recognized film festivals all around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Bucharest, Berlin, Cardiff, and Prague.