BRANKA

23.11.2023

Short Film Selection/ Hungary, 2021, 20’

Details
  • Director: Ákos K. Kovács
  • Screenplay: Ákos K. Kovács, Tamás Oláh
  • Cinematography: Levente Tóth
  • Editing: Dániel Márton
  • Producer: Gábor Osváth, Zsuzsi Gyurin
  • Production: Salamandra Film, Filmfabriq
  • Cast: Dina Mušanović, Dorottya Antóci, Nenad Pećinar, Natália Vicei
Recap

Yugoslavia, 1991... Far away from the war zones, Branka gets a job at a maternity ward of a state hospital. The young woman is all alone, but it turns out loneliness is not the hardest burden Branka has to carry. Newborns are disappearing from the hospital.

Director

Ákos K. Kovács

Ákos K. Kovács was born in 1991 in Senta, Yugoslavia. After he finished high school in Subotica he moved to Budapest, Hungary, to study cinematography in the Metropolitan University. His BA diploma work, "Away" (directed by Roland Ferge) debuted at the Berlinale Generation in 2014 where it won Special Mention of the Generation Kplus International Jury.

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The Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye organises the annual EU Human Rights Film Days on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click here for the list of films.