Eden

Ágnes Kocsis

Transicions Hungary, Romania, Belgium 153 min Spanish premiere Fiction

Synopsis

Éva is allergic to all kinds of chemical substances, air pollution, radio waves and electronic fields. She needs to live in total isolation and can have no contact with her environment. The slightest mistake may cause her death. Her only relations are with her brother and the doctors continuously experimenting on her. One day a psychiatrist comes to investigate if her illness is real or exists only in Éva’s mind. Will love be able to save her?

Themes

LoveEuropean CinemaFemale DirectorDramaSci-fi & Fantasy

Filmmaker

Ágnes Kocsis

She is a filmmaker with a doctorate from the Budapest Academy of Theater and Cinema. Her first three short films had an extensive festival tour and one of them, The Virus, was awarded at Cannes. That same year she premiered her first feature, Fresh Air, at the International Critics’ Week of the festival. Her second film, Pál Adrienn, won the FIPRESCI award in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.

Filmography: Eden (2020), Pál Adrienn (2010), Fresh Air (2006), The Virus (curt, 2005), 18 Pictures from the Life of a Conserve Factory Girl (curt, 2003), Assorted Letters (curt, 2000)

Ágnes Kocsis

Film information

Original Title: Éden
Director: Ágnes Kocsis
Script: Ágnes Kocsis
Contact: National Film Institute Hungary
With: Lana Barić, Daan Stuyven, Lóránt Bocskor-Salló, Maja Roberti, Zalán Makranczi, Róbert Kardos
Country: Hungary, Romania, Belgium
Year: 2020
Format: DCP
Length: 153 min
Language: Hungarian
Subtitles: Spanish, Catalan
Subtitles in Filmin: English, Spanish, Catalan
Edition: 2021

Poster

Eden