Preparations To Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time/ Felkészulés – Lili Horvát, 95’ (Hun) – 2021
March 6 • 9:00om • Room 2
Márta, a 40 year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man she loves. She waits for him in vain at the Liberty Bridge- but he does not appear at the rendezvous. Marta starts to search for him desperately, but when she finally finds him, the love of her life claims that they have never met before. A love story, so inevitable and irresistible as all true loves are. Preparations To Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” won the Best Film Award of the Directors Week and also Best Actress in Fantasporto 2021.
Director Lili Horvát was born in 1982 in Budapest Studied Visual Arts at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and Film Directing at the Budapest University of Theatre and Cinema. Lili ‘s first feature won the East of the West at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival and several other awards in other film events. “Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” is her second feature and won the Jury Award at the Philadelphia and other awards at the Valladolid and Warsaw festivals.
