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BRANKA

( 2021 )
Short Fim Competition |
 
Hungary
 |
 Bosnian, Hungarian, Serbian |
 20 min

Director

Ákos K. Kovács

Ákos K. Kovács was born in 1991 in Senta, Yugoslavia. After he finished high school in Subotica, he moved to Budapest to study Cinematography in the Metropolitan University. Away, ​his BA diploma project that was directed by Roland Ferge, debuted at the Berlinale Generation in 2014, where it won Special Mention of the Generation Kplus International Jury. His other collaborations as DOP include Szabolcs Hajdu’s It’s Not the Time of My Life. Since then, Kovács started to work in films as writer and  director. Branka is his first short film.   

Producer

Gábor Osváth, Zsuzsi Gyurin

Production Company

Gábor Osváth, Zsuzsi Gyurin

Screenplay

Ákos K. Kovács, Tamás Oláh

Cinematography

Levente Tóth

Editing

Dániel Márton

Sound

Levente Markos

Cast

Dina Mušanović, Dorottya Antóci, Nenad Pećinar, Natália Vicei

Contacts

Producer

Gábor Osváth, Zsuzsi Gyurin

Production Company

Gábor Osváth, Zsuzsi Gyurin

Screenplay

Ákos K. Kovács, Tamás Oláh

Cinematography

Levente Tóth

Editing

Dániel Márton

Sound

Levente Markos

Cast

Dina Mušanović, Dorottya Antóci, Nenad Pećinar, Natália Vicei

Contacts

More About Film

Set in Yugoslavia during the Croatian-Serbian war in 1991, Branka is a chilling thriller based on true child-abduction stories in Serbia. Far away from war zones, the eponymous protagonist gets a job at a maternity ward of a state hospital. The young woman is all alone, but soon discovers that loneliness is not the hardest burden that she has to carry; as newborns are disappearing from the hospital.   

Producer

Gábor Osváth, Zsuzsi Gyurin

Production Company

Gábor Osváth, Zsuzsi Gyurin

Screenplay

Ákos K. Kovács, Tamás Oláh

Cinematography

Levente Tóth

Editing

Dániel Márton

Sound

Levente Markos

Cast

Dina Mušanović, Dorottya Antóci, Nenad Pećinar, Natália Vicei

More About Film

Set in Yugoslavia during the Croatian-Serbian war in 1991, Branka is a chilling thriller based on true child-abduction stories in Serbia. Far away from war zones, the eponymous protagonist gets a job at a maternity ward of a state hospital. The young woman is all alone, but soon discovers that loneliness is not the hardest burden that she has to carry; as newborns are disappearing from the hospital.