Screenings
Internetowa edycja 65. KFF
Living Stones
Hungary2025fiction20'Short Film Competition
A young woman is lying on the tracks, while a train can be heard approaching from a distance. At the last moment, she jumps up and the train passes her within a hair’s breadth. This is the dream that the patient tells her therapist. The woman is staying at a rehabilitation centre, where she is in animal-assisted therapy. As her treatment progresses, the patient delves deeper and deeper into the darker regions of her past and, under the doctor’s supervision, slowly uncovers further layers of trauma. Trust and intimacy are an essential but very fragile part of this process.
- directed by
- Jakob Ladányi Jancsó
Film director. First he studied psychology at Freie Universität Berlin before, in 2019, taking up a master’s degree in film directing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. He withdrew from the university in his second year in protest at the undemocratic restructuring taking place there but was able to complete his degree thanks to the Emergency Exit Programme of the FreeSZFE association at the Vienna Film Academy. He has worked closely with Béla Tarr for whom he was an assistant. He is currently developing his debut feature film.
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