Easy Lessons

Hungarian Panorama
Zurbó Dorottya
Hungary
2018
78min
Hungarian, Somali

Kafia, at the age of fifteen, escaped from a child marriage in Somalia and came to Hungary, where she lived in a state orphanage in Budapest. Two years later, she is preparing for graduation exams and trying a career in modelling. Everything seems fine on the surface, but her beautiful and confident appearance conceals anxieties and doubts about leaving behind her mother, her culture, and everything she grew up with. As she becomes more comfortable with the camera, the film slowly becomes an intimate confession. What does it mean to break with your past and give yourself up to a new self—one on the brink of adulthood?

Projections: 
11.10. Saturday 14:30
Toldi
English Subtitle
Q&A
Producer: 
Ugrin Julianna
Editor: 
Sass Péter
Camera: 
Natasha Pavlovskaya
Sound: 
Várhegyi Rudolf H.A.S.E.
Music: 
Balázs Ádám
Distribution info: 
ELF Pictures (in Hungary), Donáth Péter, Donáth Anna Róza, 1052 Budapest, Régiposta u. 7-9., Telephone: +36304083802, +36305132697, peter.wetbow@gmail.com, anna.wetbow@gmail.com, elfpictures.hu // Syndicado (International Sales), Aleksandar Govedarica, c/o 121 Beaconsfield Ave. #300, Toronto, Ontario Canada M6J 3J45, Telephone: +421 949 635 890, aleksandar@syndicado.com, syndicado.com
Festivals: 
Locarno - Semaine de la Critique 2018, Sarajevo Film Festival 2018