Section: Spectrum

ÁRNI

ÁRNI

Dorka Vermes
HU, 2023, 103 Min

Lost Place on tour: a travelling circus somewhere in the countryside. Àrni is the only one who is not part of the family. His daily routine begins with feeding the exotic animals and ends with getting drunk after the show. He is an outsider - both inside and outside the circus. And yet he too would like to be in the spotlight for once.

#feature #drama #generations

Performance

2024-11-06 | 20:30
Glad-House

Árni, a young, shy man, is in the middle of it all and yet doesn't belong. The circus itself has seen better days. The poodles are old and drained of energy, the posters are peeling from the walls and the faces of the artists are worn out and furrowed, not unlike those of the villagers in the gloomy landscape that surrounds them. Alcohol, fleeting sex and fake joviality contrast with a monotonous everyday existence of hard work. When the circus one day acquires a python, no one knows what to do with the giant snake at first. Árni however senses a chance to grab the spotlight for himself. A poetic snapshot captured in scenes at once calm and atmospherically dense. And also a picturesque portrait of both a landscape and a soul, one sponsored by the Venice Biennale, unmistakably influenced by Bela Tarr and Ulrich Seidel.

Text: Wolfgang Hamdorf

06.11.2024 | 20:30 | Glad-House (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

Drehbuch
Dorka Vermes, Péter Dobány, Petra Al-Farman
Kamera
Péter Lehr-Juhász
Ton
Bence Bobák
Schnitt
Dávid Kántor
Ausstattung
Gréta Melicher
Musik
Petra Szászi
Darsteller
Péter Turi, Andrea Spolarics, Zoltán Koppány, Zoltán Gyöngyösi, Pompónia Pálya, Dorottya Gellért, Botond Kovács, Erik Ollé
Produzent
Balázs Zachar, Béla Tarr, Viktória Petrányi
Produktion
Proton Cinema
Dorka Vermes

Dorka Vermes - Dorka Vermes studied literature and film history at ELTE University in Budapest. She completed her MA studies in film directing, that she started at the University of Film and Theatre of Budapest, and finished in the joint programme of FreeSzfe Association and Filmakademie Wien.

Dorka’s previous short film, Alba Vulva was selected to be premiered at the competition of Sarajevo International Film Festival and received the Arte Award of the Filmschoolfest München. Dorka’s first feature, Árni, premiered in the Venice Film Festival and went on to several prestigious  international festivals too. She’s preparing her second feature as a Hungarian-German co-production.

more movies you may be interested in

ANOTHER GERMAN TANK STORY

ANOTHER GERMAN TANK STORY

We use cookies on our website. Some of them are essential for the operation of the site, while others help us to improve this site and the user experience (tracking cookies). You can decide for yourself whether you want to allow cookies or not. Please note that if you reject them, you may not be able to use all the functionalities of the site.