Caroline Strubbe : 2013
Szabolcs, a thirty-year-old Hungarian, is travelling by car through Western Europe. His young companion, nine-year-old Tess, sits in the back. They share a secret and tragic past and their interactions are riddled with tension. As they make their way to a harbour, we slowly come to realise that they are on the run from something, travelling as refugees. Deep in the hull of a passenger ferry, Szabolcs does his best to hide Tess's presence. A discovery thrusts their relationship into a completely different realm. After disembarking from the ferry, they settle into their hiding place, a cottage on the English coast where they are forced to examine their tragic past. There they grow closer as Szabolcs becomes a father figure to the obsessive-compulsive Tess. A sensitive and beautifully filmed road movie full of telling silences and subtle gestures, its atmospheric blue-grey images an expression of the emotional life of the traumatised characters. Caroline Strubbe's uniquely crafted second feature premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2013.
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