Fantasporto 2024 | Program

POST-MORTEM • PÉTER BERGENDY, 115’ (2021)
e numa cela de prisão. Além disso, após a revolução, um serial
killer devasta uma pequena cidade, e os investigadores devem
decidir se acreditam nos ideais perfeitos do comunismo
ou se resolvem os crimes. Finalmente, na Hungria actual,
os segredos e crimes de um padre violador, de um empresário
violento e de um fotógrafo impotente e os seus entes queridos
estão interligados. Se o cinema húngaro é imortal é algo
que os seus amigos e admiradores têm a certeza, mas nunca
saberemos a resposta a esta questão durante a nossa vida...
O que é certo, porém, é que a questão da imortalidade é uma
questão de grande preocupação, pelo menos para os filmes
desta seleção incrível.
Balázs Varga - Historiador de cinema
HUNGARIAN FANTASIES
INTRODUCTION TO VISIONS OF HUNGARIAN CINEMA AT FANTASPORTO
EXCITING AND STRANGE STORIES, FULL OF
RESTLESS HEROES, THE LIVING AND THE DEAD,
UNQUIET ENERGIES, DEVOTION, AND VISIONS.
PERPETUAL, ASTONISHING, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD,
HORRIFYING VISIONS OF THE BORDERLANDS
BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH. FILMS THAT,
AT FIRST GLANCE, BLEND GENRES AND
QUALITIES THAT SEEM INCOMPATIBLE.
Eccentric films in which the vampire film and the socialist spy
story, horror, and romantic comedy, the musical and the black
comedy meet. A unique selection of Hungarian films of the past
few years, a fantastic and imaginative collection of Hungarian
history of the past 150 years, strictly not for rational history
teachers who believe in facts, but for cinema fans who believe in
fantastic fantasy.
The night janitor at the morgue meets the love of his life and
can make up for a missed date and even help her get back to
life. The veteran communist guerilla fighter knows the secret
to eternal life instead of eternal communism – he just needs to
become a blood-sucking vampire to manage this larger-than-life
plan. A girl, possessed by the ghost of a Japanese fox fairy,
dates a policeman who sings Finnish western ballads in the never-existed,
soc-capitalist Budapest of the 1970s. After World
War I, a photographer struggles with the ghosts of the unburied
dead, frozen earth, and memories in the Hungarian wilderness.
In the middle of the 19th century, a dedicated obstetrician
battles a devastating epidemic – and has no other tool than his
own clean, freshly washed hands. At the beginning of the 21st
century, a talented neurosurgeon interrupts her burgeoning
American career and moves back to Hungary to profess her
love for a man who claims they had never met. After the 1956
revolution, questions of faith and betrayal are decided in
a life-and-death game of chess pieces made of breadcrumbs on
a mysterious train speeding to the border and in a prison cell.
Also, after the revolution, a serial killer ravages a small town, and
the investigators must decide whether to believe in the flawless
ideals of communism or solve the crimes. Finally, in present-day
Hungary, the secrets and crimes of a rapist priest, a violent
entrepreneur and a powerless photographer and their loved
ones are intertwined. Whether Hungarian cinema is immortal is
something that its friends and admirers are sure, but we will never
know the answer to this question in our lifetime...What is certain,
however, is that the question of immortality is a matter of great
concern, at least for the films in this awesome selection.
Balázs Varga - film historian
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