Affricate
Hungary / Fiction / 26' / 4K / Color / 2022
A single mother’s adventure by the seaside leads her to recognise her unnecessary martyrdom for her disabled teenage daughter.
Director: Anna Gyimesi
Script: Anna Gyimesi, Fruzsina Danszki
Director of Photography: Gergely Pálos
Producer: Ádám Felszeghy, Zoltán Mártonffy
Music: Flóra Lili Matisz
Editing: Anna Gyimesi, Attila Csabai
Sound: Botond Csizmadia
Cast: Adél Kováts, Kinga Csutak-Hoffmann, Lilla Kizlinger, Márk Nagy
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Anna Gyimesi was born in 1985, in Budapest (Hungary). 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.
Filmography
Affricate 2022
Festivals Attended
Sarajevo Film Festival
PÖFF Shorts (Black Nights Film Festival)
Macau International Short Film Festival
Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival
Febiofest - Bratislava International FilmFestival
Festival de cine Al Este
Cinefemina
Awards
Cinelink-award - Talent Sarajevo Pack&Pitch