Highways of Hope
“When I drive, I feel power.”
Gulnaz is a woman in her early twenties from India, who works as a truck driver in Europe to secure a better future for her father and herself but she finds something more.
Production stage: Late Development
Estimated release: 2028
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Alexa Bakony is a Budapest-based filmmaker, a Sundance DFP Fellow and Berlinale Talents alumna. Her debut feature documentary, Colors of Tobi (2021), received the HBO Europe Development Award in 2020 and went on to win the Mermaid Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2021, followed by the Hungarian Film Critics Award in 2022. In addition, Colors of Tobi received the Best Hungarian Documentary Award at Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in 2022.
Marianna Rudas is a member of the European Film Academy and a Berlinale Talents alumna. She has edited and co-written films that have won awards at major festivals, including the European Film Awards shortlisted, multi-award winning documentary feature Who I Am Not (2023), selected by SXSW and acquired by POV/PBS. Also, Colors of Tobi (2021), a Sundance Fund-supported and Verzió winner Hungarian documentary feature. Besides her own artwork, Marianna works as a consultant editor.