Dorottya Márton

Could I live anywhere else? Before Hanna moves abroad, she gets lost and rediscovers her Eastern European home country in a twisted journey.

I reconnect with my grandmother and her next-door neighbor, who partially raised me until the age of 6, hoping that they can help me understand why I lived separated from the rest of my family during this period.

I reconnect with my grandmother and her next-door neighbor, who partially raised me until the age of 6, hoping that they can help me understand why I lived separated from the rest of my family during this period.

Women read letters sent to Nők Lapja, Hungary’s longest-running women’s magazine, established during the country’s communist era. Stepping into the imagined roles of the letter writers, they revisit personal stories about motherhood, relationships, and work, interpreting them through the lens of their own lives. Through this intergenerational dialogue, we learn how women’s lives have changed and what this reveals about contemporary urban society.

Women read letters sent to Nők Lapja, Hungary’s longest-running women’s magazine, established during the country’s communist era. Stepping into the imagined roles of the letter writers, they revisit personal stories about motherhood, relationships, and work, interpreting them through the lens of their own lives. Through this intergenerational dialogue, we learn how women’s lives have changed and what this reveals about contemporary urban society.

A short film.