Thu, May 09
|Toldi Cinema
MERMAIDS DON'T CRY
THE SUPERMARKET CASHIER DREAMS OF HAVING A SYNTHETIC MERMAID FIN TO DISTRACT HERSELF FROM HER EVERYDAY LIFE.
Time & Location
May 09, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Toldi Cinema, Budapest, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36–38, 1054.
About The Film
Mermaids Don't Cry | 9 May | 18:00 | Big Hall
Austria, 2022, 92 mins
Comedy / Drama, in German with English and Hungarian subtitles
Annika, a supermarket cashier, dreams of the perfect mermaid fin. It would bring glamour into her chaotic world where her father moves back in with her, her girlfriend asks her to look after her children and her potential lover stays at her place because he is homeless. There are also plans to make savings in the supermarket and the shamanically trained branch manager is looking for potential lay-offs. But none of that matters: Annika needs the fin and it costs 2.458 euro.
After the screening, there will be a discussion with director Franziska Pflaum.
Franziska Pflaum (*1987) – director and guest
She works as a film director and an author. She studied arts at the Academy of Arts in Vienna and finished her film studies at the Konrad Wolf University in Babelsberg. She won the German Short Film Award in 2014.
Austrian Cultural Forum
Since 1976, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Budapest has served as a platform for cultural contacts between Hungary and Austria through the variety of its events. The Cultural Forum supports artists and projects in the fields of music, literature, performing and visual arts and film but also symposia and discussion events.