Tilda, a young translator, returns to Budapest after years abroad — and spends a summer rewinding through fragmented memory-shreds, while she slowly understands how she lost touch with herself.
Tilda (29), a translator, stands at an airport baggage carousel waiting for her only luggage — a Monobloc chair. As it arrives, memories surface of a late summer in Budapest, where she returned after years abroad. The memories reveal four relationships—a situationship with Mo, a one-sided friendship with Virág, distant phone calls with her mother with high expectations, and her connection to the city which once was home but now feels like the backdrop of her loneliness. In all of them, Tilda translates herself into whatever shape the situation requires, and disappears a little more each time. The Monobloc chair she finds during lomtalanítás —Budapest's annual junk-clearing ritual — reflects her continuous self-erasure across timelines, until her memory reaches its beginning: her first meeting with Mo, the night she found the chair. She discovers her need to stop performing for others' approval. As a last gesture, she leaves the chair on the baggage carousel and walks toward departures.
Country of production
Hungary
Target audience
Zillenail generation (born between 1994 and 1999) and Adults
Animation technique
live action, mixed media animation and 2D digital animation
Production company
BoddahEstimated budget
120000 EUR
Funding secured
51,000 EUR 10.000 EUR - Creative Media Mini Slate (EU) 2000 EUR - Baltic Pitching Forum - sound post production at UPRecords (Litvania) 3000 EUR - own investment (Hungary) 36.000 EUR - automatic tax rebate (Hungary)
Stage of the project
Script Development (existing treatment)
