Aurora Borealis
- Márta Mészáros
- Drama
- 104 min
- Ungern
A family story with two twisting timelines
Mária, the elderly mother of Olga – a successful lawyer living in Vienna, falls unexpectedly ill and is now in a coma. As Mária hovers between life and death, Olga incidentally unearths a secret that has been deliberately hidden. Her investigation takes her all the way back to a war-torn Europe of the 1950s. The film discusses the dramatic situations that grow out of identity crises, the open wounds caused by war in a shattered Europe, and the liberating power of lies unveiled.
DIRECTOR
Awards
- 2017 – Chicago International Film Festival
Audience Award - 2018 – Cluj-Napoca Transilvania
Lifetime Achievement Award to Márta Mészáros - 2018 – Lagów International Film Festival
Juliusz Burski Prize
Festivals
- 2017 – Luxembourg CinÉast
- 2017 – Warsaw International Film Festival
- 2017 – Calcutta International Film Festival
- 2018 – Belgrade International Film Festival
- 2018 – Wiesbaden Goeast Film Festival
- 2018 – Palic International Film Festival
- 2018 – British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2018 – Créteil Women Films Festival
- 2018 – Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
- 2018 – Ottawa Cellar Door Film Festival
Filminfo
| Originaltitel | Északi fény |
|---|---|
| Produktionsår | 2017 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Land | Ungern |
| Regissör | Márta Mészáros |
| Skådespelare | Mari Törőcsik, Franciska Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, Antonio de la Torre |
| Producent | Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki, Zoltán Jancsó |
| Längd | 104 min |
| Språk tal | ungerska |
| Språk text | engelska |
| Premiär | 19 oktober 2018 |