A math nerd tries to escape a village that refuses to let him leave. The trees are in on it.
A teenager wins a mathematical competition and as a prize for the winners of the contest, they have to spend a week in the fictional Hungarian village of Tótcsanád. He has extreme homesickness and as a result he plans to escape and go back to the capital city, Budapest. The plan looks impossible, but it seems like as if bigger forces would also want him to escape.
Direction
Horváth Milán makes 13 minutes feel like a fever dream
Cinematography
Those flat Hungarian landscapes that judge you silently
Director
Miklós Horváth Milán
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tótcsanád doesn't exist, but it's every Hungarian's ancestral village — the film weaponizes that collective nostalgia against the viewer.
The 'landscape theory' keyword isn't pretentious fluff — the film literally treats geography as a character with motivations, possibly malevolent ones.
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