A Hungarian short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival
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A Hungarian film has been announced as one of the selected works at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, origo.hu reports.
The animated short film called The Noise of Licking (orig. A nyalintás nesze) by Nadja Andrasev will compete in the Cinéfondation Selection, a category that awards the best works submitted by film universities. In January, Andrasev’s short film won the Hungarian Film Critics Award, and it is the first Hungarian animated film to be selected for the Cinéfondation.
The nine-minute short film features a woman who is taking care of her exotic plants, while the neighbour’s cat is watching her every day. Their perverse game escalates, then one day the cat disappears. Next spring a mysterious guest arrives…
“My film was inspired by the short story Forgiveness by Ádám Bodor, which caught my attention because of its absurdity,” says director Nadja Andrasev. “The situation in which a woman is being spied on by an uninvited stranger during her everyday activities takes on a subtle sexual charge. The voyeuristic atmosphere reveals the characters’ life and struggles with loneliness, desires, self-destructive fetishes, while the story imperceptibly shifts between reality and fiction.”