ÖSSZHANG: One Day

Director: Zsófia Szilágyi

Writers: Réka Mán-Várhegyi, Zsófia Szilágyi
Stars: Zsófia Szamosi, Leó Füredi, Ambrus Barcza

Juggling one child’s busy schedule is a parental headache; with three, life can become a spreadsheet nightmare. Especially if, as in Hungarian director Zsófia Szilágyi’s wonderful debut film, it’s the working mother who somehow gets landed with the brunt of the childcare and mum’s-taxi-service duties. On this mundane premise, Szilágyi builds a deeply relevant film that manages to turn 36 hours in the life of a worn-out mother-of-three into a small but powerful drama of ordinary desperation.

Awards: FIPRESCI-DÍJ, CANNES 2018