AURORA BOREALIS

AURORA BOREALIS: ÉSZAKI FÉNY

By Márta MÉSZÁROS

NATIONAL FILM INSTITUTE - HUNGARY - as SALES All rights, World

Historical - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Chicago IFF 2017
Audience Award
Film Fest Gent 2018
Focus on Hungarian Cinema
Cluj-Napoca Transilvania 2018
Lifetime Achievement Award to Marta Meszaros
Lagów IFF 2018
Juliusz Burski Prize
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Historical, Romance, Drama
    • Countries
    • HUNGARY
    • Languages
    • HUNGARIAN
    • Duration
    • 104 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Márta MÉSZÁROS
    • Producer(s)
    • István MAJOR (Filmteam)
    • Synopsis
    • Aurora Borealis is a family story with two twisting timelines. Mária, the elderly mother of Olga – a successful lawyer living in Vienna, falls unexpectedly ill and is now in a coma. As Mária hovers between life and death, Olga incidentally unearths a secret that has been deliberately hidden. Her investigation takes her all the way back to a war-torn Europe of the 1950s. The film discusses the dramatic situations that grow out of identity crises, the open wounds caused by war in a shattered Europe, and the liberating power of lies unveiled.