Judit Elek, Direct Filmmaker - March 28th to April 18th

Hungarian filmmaker Judit Elek's youth was profoundly shaped by the events of the 20th Century (childhood in a ghetto during the Holocaust, the Budapest uprising of 1956, and later, the events of 1968). This intimate connection to History is inseparable from the cinema she created. Drawing from pioneering direct cinema techniques in the early part of her career, she never ceased – even in her fictional work – to confront reality head-on, while imbuing it with a poetic dimension and asserting her freedom of vision. Tirelessly questioning social tensions and historical traumas, her films demonstrate a unique attention to the complexity of human interactions and the solitary emotions of individuals.