Marianna Vas

Two young sisters spend the sultry summer in constant tension and a rivalry for love and attention. While outside the wheels of history slowly turn, inside the confined cosmos of Grandma’s garden a gesture of resentment brings unforeseen trouble.

In the courtyard of an old mill, the grandchildren of the elderly owners are living their best life, when the presence of a newly arrived, mysterious relative slowly begins to creep through the air of the homestead. As the initially temporary state seems to become permanent, the tension mounts, and the shadows of childhood comingle with the fragile love and power relationships of the farm’s inhabitants, amidst the atmosphere of communist Hungary in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Wild Berries is the sensorial journey of a solitary boy immersed into his own world, wandering through fields and forests, going further towards the unknown at every step. Left alone in the desolate rural landscape of Romania, he plays hide and seek among gigantic sunflowers, roams the endless fields, watches the animals around him, finds and loses things. Observing and waiting, he looks for excitement and sometimes remains disappointed. He looks back at us and we follow him, driven by a nostalgic desire towards something in ourselves that perhaps never existed.

Two young sisters spend the sultry summer in constant tension and a rivalry for love and attention. While outside the wheels of history slowly turn, inside the confined cosmos of Grandma’s garden a gesture of resentment brings unforeseen trouble.

Two young sisters spend the sultry summer in constant tension and a rivalry for love and attention. While outside the wheels of history slowly turn, inside the confined cosmos of Grandma’s garden a gesture of resentment brings unforeseen trouble.

In the courtyard of an old mill, the grandchildren of the elderly owners are living their best life, when the presence of a newly arrived, mysterious relative slowly begins to creep through the air of the homestead. As the initially temporary state seems to become permanent, the tension mounts, and the shadows of childhood comingle with the fragile love and power relationships of the farm’s inhabitants, amidst the atmosphere of communist Hungary in the 1950s and ‘60s.

In the courtyard of an old mill, the grandchildren of the elderly owners are living their best life, when the presence of a newly arrived, mysterious relative slowly begins to creep through the air of the homestead. As the initially temporary state seems to become permanent, the tension mounts, and the shadows of childhood comingle with the fragile love and power relationships of the farm’s inhabitants, amidst the atmosphere of communist Hungary in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Wild Berries is the sensorial journey of a solitary boy immersed into his own world, wandering through fields and forests, going further towards the unknown at every step. Left alone in the desolate rural landscape of Romania, he plays hide and seek among gigantic sunflowers, roams the endless fields, watches the animals around him, finds and loses things. Observing and waiting, he looks for excitement and sometimes remains disappointed. He looks back at us and we follow him, driven by a nostalgic desire towards something in ourselves that perhaps never existed.