Hungarian movies at the Gent Film Festival 2021

Official Selection 103' - 2021 - Drama - Dialogue: Hungarian, Russian - Format: DCP

Director: Dénes Nagy Composer: Santa Ratniece With: Lászlo Bajkó, Ferenc Szabó, Tamás Garbacz

World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer whoserves as a Corporal in a special unit scouting for partisan groups.

Tue 12 Oct 15:00 - Kinepolis 6
Subtitles: Nederlands – Frans (PRESS ONLY)

Thu 14 Oct 19:45 - Kinepolis 5
Subtitles: Nederlands - Frans
Special guest: Dénes Nagy

Fri 15 Oct 17:00 - Kinepolis 1
Subtitles: Nederlands - Frans
Special guest: Dénes Nagy

Sun 17 Oct 22:15 - Kinepolis 8
Subtitles: Nederlands - Frans

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“Director Dénes Nagy explores the human condition in a story set during World War II. Deliberately intense and slow-paced, the silences between the rare lines of dialogue are filled with impressionistic sound design. The violence always happens off-screen, but Nagy makes sure we hear everything.” - Cineuropa

World War II, occupied Soviet Union. István Semetka is a simple Hungarian farmer who serves as a Corporal in a special unit scouting for partisan groups. On their way to a remote village, his company falls under enemy fire. As the commander is killed, Semetka has to overcome his fears and take command of the unit as he is dragged into a chaos that he cannot control.

Official Selection 114' - 2021 - Drama - Dialogue: Hungarian - Format: DCP

Director: Benedek Fliegauf Composer: Benedek Fliegauf, Péter Fancsikai, Tamás Beke With: Péter Fancsikai, Eszter Balla, Laszlo Cziffer

Almost twenty years later, Hongarian director Benedek Gliegauf comes with a prequel to his dark omnibus Forest.

Wed 13 Oct 17:30 - Sphinx 3
Subtitles: Engels

Thu 14 Oct 21:45 - Sphinx 1
Subtitles: Engels

Tue 19 Oct 14:30 - Studio Skoop 2
Subtitles: Engels

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Seven hypnotic and unpredictable short stories culminate in a psychological kaleidoscope of couples, families and friends, all connected by their common fate. A standalone-sequel to Bence Fliegauf's 2003 festival-hit Forest.

"Fliegauf returns to the intense emotions and fragmented structure of his 2003 debut, a series of two-hander vignettes depicting relationships in various crises. (...) Forest – I See You Everywhere is a collage of human dysfunction, jumping between themes of grief, abuse and retribution." – Variety

Official Selection 81' - 2021 - Documentary - Dialogue: Hungarian - Format: DCP

Director: Alexa Bakony Composer: Andor Sperling With: Tóbiás Benjámin Tuza, Éva Ildikó Tuza, Zoltán Tuza

There is a tiny village in Hungary, where Éva and her family live. Her 16-year-old child recently came out as transgender and lives by his chosen name of Tobi.

Wed 13 Oct 20:00 - Sphinx 3
Subtitles: Engels

Sat 16 Oct 22:15 - Sphinx 2
Subtitles: Engels

Wed 20 Oct 18:15 - Sphinx 1
Subtitles: Engels

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"Colors of Tobi is a film about a non-binary person that intentionally addresses a dual audience, both cis and trans, acknowledging the influence that parents and guardians have on their gender non-conforming children at that age." - Sight & Sound

There is a tiny village in Hungary, where Éva and her family live. Her 16-year-old child recently came out as transgender and lives by his chosen name of Tobi. After the initial shock, the whole family comes together to support him. However, Éva is quietly suffocating from the idea of losing the girl she was raising. Tobi is determined to become a man biologically all while he struggles growing up. Éva is trying hard to be the mother her son needs while Tobi starts questioning the boundaries he set up for himself as a transgender man. An emotional tale of releasing and accepting.

Courtisane: Out of the Shadows 115' - 1977 - Dialogue: Arabic - Format: 16mm

Director: Assia Djebar

La Nouba borrows the structure of the nouba, a five-part traditional Andalusian music form, to tell the story of a woman who returns to the town of her childhood fifteen years after the violent War of Independence.

Sun 24 Oct 15:00 - Paddenhoek
Subtitles: Engels

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“This film, in the form of a nouba, is dedicated, posthumously, to Hungarian musician Béla Bartók, who had come to a nearly mute Algeria to study its folk music in 1913; and to Yaminai Oudai, known as Zoulikha, who organised a resistance network in the city of Cherchell and its mountains in 1955 and 1956. She was arrested in the mountains when she was in her forties. Her name was subsequently added to the list of the missing. Lila — the protagonist in this film — could be Zoulikha’s daughter. The six other talking women of Chenoua recount fragments of their lives. The Nouba of the Women is their moment. But the Nouba is also the Nouba of the Andalusian music in its particular rhythmic movements. “

La Nouba borrows the structure of the nouba, a five-part traditional Andalusian music form, to tell the story of a woman who returns to the town of her childhood fifteen years after the violent War of Independence. Reading the history of her country as written in the stories of women’s lives, La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua is an engrossing portrait of speech and silence, memory and creation, and a tradition where the past and present coexist.

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