Affricate

Storyline

Klára is raising her two teenage daughters alone. Léna, the elder, has a movement disability. The three of them go on an off-season holiday to the seaside, where they encounter Mark, a young hotel worker. The young man invites the girls to participate at the hotel’s talent show. His flirtation disturbs Klára. While Léna and Gréti perform their dance on the stage, Mark leaves the show. Klárais angered and decides to tell him off. When she finds Mark on the shore, their fight turns into a sudden intimacy that exposes the woman’s desires.

About the film/director

Anna Gyimesi was born in 1985, in Budapest. After receiving her degree in medicine in 2011, she turned to filmmaking. She graduated from the film directing program of the University of Theater and Film Arts in 2019 and from documentary film directing in the Docnomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Course in 2021.Her interests are taboo social dilemmas represented through personal dramas, especially connected to motherhood, womanhood, and social marginalization. With Affricate she won Cinelink-award for the best pitch at Talent Sarajevo Pack&Pitch 2020 and took part in European Short Pitch Works-In-Progress Co-Production Forum in 2022. Recently she is developing her first feature.

Credits

Director:

Anna Gyimesi

Script:

Anna Gyimesi, Fruzsina Danszki

Camera:

Gergely Pálos

Animation:

Barbara Győry

Editor:

Anna Gyimesi

Cast:

Adél Kováts, Kinga Csutak-Hoffmann, Lilla Kizlinger, Márk Nagy

Sound:

Botond Csizmadia

Music:

Flóra Lili Matisz

Producer:

Ádám Felszeghy, Zoltán Mártonffy, Umbrella

Contact:

LightsOn: Flavio Armone

E-Mail:

lightson@lightsonfilm.org

• Hungary

• Hungarian, English, Croatian / subtitles English
• 2022
• 26 min