Shortfilm Section ⎜ Verzió

Prayer for the Weary
Hungarian premiere
Visky Ábel, Hungary, 2022, 11’
in Hungarian with English subtitles

Ábel Visky’s film offers a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ádám Stark, a performer living on the autism spectrum, and his parents. The film revolves around a special method of memorizing poetry in which Ádám’s mother, Judit, a drawing teacher, turns the poem’s images into pictures to help her son interpret and memorize the piece. Highlighting the performer’s personality, the film also sheds new light on Attila József’s poem, “Prayer for the Weary”.

It Has Passed, and It’s Fine
Hungarian premiere
Debre Zsuzsa, Hungary, 2022, 28’
in Hungarian with English subtitles

Through the use of archival footage, and the recording of intimate situations, It Has Passed, and It’s Fine displays the nostalgic relationship women who once worked in the Ózd Metallurgical Plants have with the past. Conversations in the hair salon reveal the everyday and community life of working families before the change of the regime.

Khan’s Flesh
Hungarian premiere
Kristina Savutsina, Germany, Belarus, 2021, 58’
in Russian and Belarusian with English subtitles

Khan's Flesh shows the choreography of everyday life in a small Belarussian town. Inhabitants move and position their bodies depending on the situation, and according to their social status. A skeleton of norms, rules, and role models together with the bodies of active citizens, create a structure whose components function through mutual control, praise, and punishment. These interwoven social structures are traced, broken apart and recontextualized in a dance-like montage. The images' strict tableau-style reveals a surreal theatricality of institutionally-shaped everyday life.