One Woman Waiting evokes questions of subjectivity in the mirrored performance of two women. The single take, tableau composition forms the structure for catalytic change between the characters. The sensuous desert environment accentuates the poetic and ephemeral quality of this film.
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Set in a cave imagined as an air-raid shelter, images of the surrounding trees are painted over directly on the film. Vivid colors intermixed with the sound of wartime radio communications and bombing create a harmonious composition of documentary and animation.
A poor young man, Stoicea, becomes obsessed with finding Califar, a mysterious miller rumored to grant wealth. When he finally reaches the mill, he experiences a life of sudden prosperity and success. However, this new reality proves to be an illusion crafted by Califar. In the end, the story reveals a dark moral about greed, temptation, and the deceptive nature of material desires.
An allegorical short film about the price of freedom. A vast, leafy tree stands in the centre of the field. One ambitious apple on a branch does everything to ripen as soon as possible and break away from the branch that ‘holds it back’, while these restless efforts are viewed with profound contempt by the withered apples around it. The young fruit’s efforts are finally rewarded and while the brief moment of freefall induces euphoria, it ends up crushed by the laws of physics.
KASTÉLYOK LAKÓI shows the clash between old structures and Hungary’s socialist present. “In 1966, I made the documentary KASTÉLYOK LAKÓI about five castles in Gödöllő that used to be the Habsburgs’ royal residence. When I filmed there, parts of the building had been repurposed, converted into an old people’s home and a Russian barrack. Everything was in a very run-down state. Dilapidated palaces in which old, confused people lived who still had their own opinions about the world and fateful stories to tell. And behind them, one can still see the baroque facades and snow-white fireplaces in the film.” – Judit Elek.
An intellectual is exiled to a small, isolated mountain village in southeastern Turkey to work as a schoolteacher. The inhabitants have to fight a perpetual battle against hostile nature, and the teacher tries to combat the inhuman reality of this place where misery, indifference and the impossibility of communication reign. In this village, tragedy is trivialized by repetition and habit. But the children who remain have a marvelous will to survive…
Betrayal is set in Bergen in the year 1948. The film’s protagonist is the seven-year-old Kamilla, who grows up in a society under reconstruction, and in a family in disintegration. Her parents are mostly concerned about money and about themselves, but in her friend Svein Kamilla finds the love and solidarity that she is missing.
The film follows Herdis, an eight-year-old girl, during a rainy day in Bergen. Set against the backdrop of social hardship and class divisions in the early 20th century, the story portrays Herdis’s fragile inner world as she navigates her family’s disintegration and her loneliness and hope for connection. Her parents quarrel, prompting her to wander out into the rain, searching for playmates, but she instead encounters humiliation from older children and remains socially isolated. Based on the short story collection Trylleglasset by Torborg Nedreaas.