Country: Romania Language: Romanian, English, French Presented in our Virtual Screening RoomA young gay police officer who’s worked hard to keep his sexuality hidden must face his inner demons when he’s forced to intervene during an anti-gay protest. Veteran theater director Eugen Jebeleanu’s highly polished debut feature is inspired by real events in Romania.
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Country: Hungary Language: HungarianFamily ties become a trap from which a woman struggles to escape in Mészáros’ quietly devastating sophomore feature. Rare among her works in its focus on a wealthy, rather than working-class, milieu, it strikingly illustrates how the predicaments of patriarchy affect all women.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianOne of her most formally experimental works, Mészáros’ music-driven counterculture snapshot traces the odyssey of a young woman joining a touring band on the eve of her marriage, reflecting the cultural sea change sweeping Europe at a time when traditional values were being shaken by a youthquake of individual self expression.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianThe first Hungarian film directed by a woman, Márta Mészáros’ debut feature is an assured expression of many of her recurring themes: broken families, the relationships between parents and children, and the search for stability in an uncertain world.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianIn representing Hungarian society’s clashing attitudes and prejudices Mészáros depicts a working class woman’s attempt to overcome the perceived inferiority of her social status as well as her own familial dysfunction and feelings of inadequacy.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianMészáros gives aching expression to the experiences of women in 1970s Hungary in this sensitive and absorbing slice-of-life drama, which became the first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianA defiant woman asserts her autonomy in the face of a disapproving society in Mészáros’ complex look at the ways in which women’s bodies and minds are held in check by the strictures of patriarchy.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianTwo women, each at a critical crossroads in life and love, find refuge in their friendship with one another in this multilayered look at female solidarity. With characteristic sensitivity, Mészáros traces the protective yet complex bond that forms between the two, each at a different stage of life.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianUnable to give birth, Szilvia, a wealthy heiress, offers Irén money in exchange for conceiving a child with her husband on her behalf. A piercing period elegy blurring social boundaries and leading all involved into an explosive moral, emotional, and romantic minefield.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
Read MoreCountry: Hungary Language: HungarianMészáros drew on her own wartime experiences to craft this haunting portrait of a young woman coming of age amidst a turbulent historical moment, caught between the shock of World War II and the rising tide of Stalinism. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes.Presented at the Film Center as part of a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen.
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