The Hungarian-Swedish co-production, Your Life Without Me won the Audience Award of the 21st Verzió. The audience could vote for the films between 7 and 13 November in Toldi and Művész cinemas. 

On behalf of Anna Rubi director, the film's editor, Júlia Hack, and the film's co-author and producer, Áron Szentpéteri got the award on 13 November, before the last screening of the festival in Toldi cinema.

Your Life Without Me was pitched at the Verzió DocLab in 2022. The film premiered in the program of the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2024 where it won the Human Rights Award. 

The film's protagonist is Magdi, a strong-willed, but lonely caregiver who faces a daunting reality as she grows older: if she were to pass away, her disabled adult son Feri would be left to the inhumane conditions of the Hungarian state care system, and would quickly follow her. Determined to secure a future for Feri, Magdi unites with a group of mothers who are in the same situation and they take legal action against the state. 

The film is part of the Satellite Verzió program in Pécs (13 November), and in Kecskemét (16 November). Your Life Without Me is available on the streaming platform RTL+ in Hungary. 

Follow updates about the film here, and follow and support the work of the film's protagonists through the following website: gondozotthon.hu/adomanyozas

Photos: Balázs Ivándi-Szabó