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Film Discussion. One Day
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 @ 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event.
Registrants will receive a link to independently view the film prior to the live event.
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The East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute presents its 2020-2021 film series: Contemporary Society and Its Discontents, a series of screenings and discussions of films from the past five years that comment on various aspects of contemporary life in East Central Europe. Join us for a virtual screening of the 2018 Hungarian film One Day (“Egy nap”) and a discussion with director Zsófia Szilágyi, moderated by Christopher W. Harwood and Aleksandar Bošković, co-directors of the East Central European Center.
SYNOPSIS. Anna is 40. She is always in a rush. She has three children, a husband, a job and financial stress. When it comes to money, each penny counts, when it comes to time, so does each minute. Anna meets deadlines, makes promises, takes care of things, brings stuff home and remembers everything. But she never catches up with her husband. She’d like to talk to him. She feels she must. She feels she is losing him. And she feels she can’t always evade what comes next. A clash between the everyday, the unbearably monotonous and the fragile and unique.
Zsófia Szilágyi graduated as a Hungarian grammar and literature teacher at the University of Pécs in 2002. She continued her education as a film and tv director at the Academy of Film and Drama of Budapest from 2002 to 2007. During her studies she participated in a scholarship by Leonardo Da Vinci Programme and studied production at Mediopolis Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Berlin in 2006. In the same year she took apart in Heimat, Europa? an audiovisual project by the organisation of Kolleg für Menagement und Gestaltung nachaltiger Entwicklung GmbH where she was a scriptwriter and camera assistant. In 2011 she won the Scholarship of Goethe Institute in Hamburg.
She worked as assistant lecturer to Golden Lion and Oscar nominated director, Ildikó Enyedi at the Hungarian Academy of Film and Theatre between 2007 and 2009. In 2012 she directed If You Can, a documentary supported by European Integration Fund.
She also worked in several short features and documentaries, casting directed Ildiko Enyedi’s Oscar-nominated On Body and Soul.
One Day (2018) is her debut feature.