Special Programme „Fates in Frame: People From Central and Eastern Europe“  

Stream of Love

Love and desire fill the minds of villagers in a Hungarian speaking village in Transylvania, Romania, even in their old age. Time has stood still here, and although most of the village’s inhabitants are elderly, they are refreshingly young at heart. Stream of Love is funny, surprising and heartwarming, revealing how these tragicomic tales prove the ancient game of love and romance is still being played in this remote village, with its aura of bygone days.

Awards

Trieste International Film Festival – Best Documentary Award, “ESPANSIONI” Award for Ágnes Sós, 2014 
International Film Festival “Zagreb Dox” – Special Mention, 2014
International Film Festival “Mediawave” – Best Documentary Film Award, 2014

Ágnes Sós

Started her career as an editor and director in the Hungarian National Television. Later she began directing and producing documentaries for television and film, of which she has made over 35 films. Ágnes Sós is also the founder and director of the Budapest International Documentary Film Festival.

Selected Filmography

Invisible Strings – The Talented Pusker Sisters / A tehetséges Pusker nővérek, 2010
A Mad Love That Is / Őrült szerelem ez, 2009
I Just Wanted to Show You / Akartam volna mutatni, 2005
Grandmother Teri / Teri nagyi, 2003
So What, We are Capitalists / Tőkések vagyunk, vagy mi, 2002
…and There is the Prison, Honey / Van a börtön, babám..., 2000

Anything Can Happen

Tomek discovers the world by pacing a park on his scooter, stopping to smell flowers, chase butterflies, and feed squirrels. However, the most important are his stops beside park benches where old people rest. The boy engages them in conversations, confronting his knowledge with their experiences. He manages to create a certain natural aura which daily interhuman relations lack. He asks his interlocutors unobvious questions, like for instance: ‘how long will you live?’, ‘what would you do if you were born again?’ and they answer them willingly, confessing to Tomek what lies in their hearts.

Awards

San Francisco International Film Festival – Golden Spire Award, 1996
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival – Catholic Filmwork Germany Award, 1996
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival – FICC Award, 1996
Krakow Film Festival – Golden Dragon Award, 1995

Marcel Łoziński

Born in Paris, he earned his degree in Film Directing from Łódź Film School. In 1994, was nominated for the American Academy Award and for the European Film Academy Award for the documentary – “89 mm from Europe”. Lectured at FEMIS film school and the School of Polish Culture of the Warsaw University; ran documentary film workshops in Marseilles. Currently lectures at Andrzej Wajda’s Master School for Film Directors.

Selected Filmography

How it’s Done, 2006
So it Doesn’t Hurt, 1998
89 mm from Europe, 1993
Katyn Forrest, 1990
Witnesses, 1988
Wheel of Fortune, 1972