Handmaidens

Screening and talks with filmmaker Orsolya Gazsó

Date:  May 23
Time: 23:00
Location:  Liszt Institute New York
223 E 52nd Street, NY 10022

Screening and talks with filmmaker Orsolya Gazsó

Meet five elderly, but nevertheless, good-humored nuns who live in the convent in Topola, Vojvodina: Sister Bernadetta, Kerubina, Melinda, Virginia and Emerencia. Their dress reaches to their ankles, their smile: to their ears. They steadily tend to the gardens of the covenant, pray, cook, exercise, tell jokes, go to the market, play games, celebrate and have wonderful meals. Their service towards the religious life in Vojvodina and their care for the mental and physical well-being of the people is invaluable. Purity and serenity are spreading from the convent of the sisters from the Bačka region named after Our Lady in Bačka Topola. They live a balanced and joyful life together, just like a big family.

The language of the event is Hungarian.

Winner of the Junior Prima award in the journalist category, Orsolya Gazsó is a freelance producer, journalist and entrepreneur. Lecturer at the University of Szeged’s media and communication’s faculty, editor and presenter of the portrait radio show Let’s talk on the Novi Sad Radio, journalist at Marie Claire, producer and director of the environmental awareness educational television show Green Sphere