A dying star on TV, a grandmother's cough, and a boy who just turned eighteen.
Józsi is sitting on his bed, watching TV. His grandmother is wrapping a gift in the kitchen and coughing. It is just the two of them. On the screen a star is dying and Józsi turns up the volume. He turned eighteen today.
Direction
Török frames absence like a physical presence.
Acting
Szirmai's stillness contains entire universes.
Sound
TV static becomes emotional architecture.
Director
Marcell Török
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'csillagok' title evokes Hungarian folk songs about departed souls becoming stars—rural cosmology meeting cosmic science.
Török studied under Béla Tarr; the 24-minute runtime deliberately mirrors a day in the life that contains an entire lifetime of unsaid things.
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