ON BODY AND SOUL

Berlinale's Golden Bear, FIPRESCI and Ecumenical prize winner finds love, connection, and existential mysteries in a Budapest abattoir.

Eighteen years after winning Cannes' Caméra d'Or and nine years since her last feature, Hungarian writer/director Ildikó Enyedi (Tamas and Juli, MIFF 1999) returns with a poetic and haunting exploration of what it means to be human – and to share the same dream about animals.

In this enigmatic drama meets darkly playful romantic comedy, slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária appear to have little in common; he's stern in a place with little levity, and she's shy and tentative in a job that doesn't promote socialising. In person, they're awkward, but they soon discover an unexpected link, tied to the vivid visions that enliven their respective slumbers.

'A captivating possibility for human communion in a tale full of tragi-comic existentialism … a really delightfully different piece of filmmaking.' – Screen Anarchy

Contains abattoir imagery, and suicide themes