Mother's Imprint
We learn from an online article that our mother was living at 21 Csanády Street in 1944. After reading the article we decide that we want to know everything about that time. As we start to talk to our mother we begin to uncover the past. As we dig deeper and deeper into that past, we learn about family secrets that had never before come to light, our family's embedded memories. We don’t settle only for what we learn from her, we start to investigate in archives and libraries and ask historians to help us understand what our mother would have lived through at that time as a four year old child. We want to know the difficulties she faced when we were already part of her life. On our journey of discovery we encounter some very interesting people and soon realize that every house and every family has similar secrets to hide. In the end, we even find an American relative who we believed to be lost.
Kata Olah began work as an editor, host, and director for a variety of television productions in the mid 1990's. For 10 years, she produced television series and short films. It was only in 2010 that she began to focus on directing. In that year, she completed a documentary for HBO entitled Romacops. Since then, she has directed several mid-length documentaries and popular science miniseries. Her first short fiction, En Passant, has won a number of international awards.