Deus Ex Machina

This social Drama tells the parallel stories of three families in rural Hungary today. The stories of a rich businessman, Árpád, his wife Franciska and their daughter Babita, a photographer called Gábor, his ceramist girlfriend Edina and a prison priest. Their destinies are linked. Many of them live or have lived in the same city and their lives upended by the secrets and crimes that are revealed over a period of 10 years.

Bence - who is a member of his father’s petty crime organization – goes to his grandparents over the weekend. He is there to say goodbye to his demented grandfather and to provide some help to his grandmother, Magda with the old man’s caretaking. While he is with them Bence has to confront some unpleasant truth about the family’s collective past, and he also realizes the violence he casts on others follows him everywhere.

The first generation suffers, the second remains silent, the third asks questions. Three women lived and grew up in the Ceausescu dictatorship, which left behind unspoken things. My task is to ask questions.

A teenager filmbuff and a single woman in her forties meet each other. Then they meet again and start to realize that they might have more in common, than meets the eye, and form an unlikely connection.

Laci, the aging ex-deejay runs a record store. The worn down shop's basement doubles as a club, where Peti, the young DJ plays on the weekends. Or rather he would, if Laci let him.

Melissa is abducted at night. Her relatives do everything they can to find the girl, and their investigation leads to the 11th District crime organization. The truth slowly comes to light, which changes everything.

A pointless, hedonistic guy is sliding down the slope of self-destruction. One day he goes through one of the strangest trips of his life: he finds himself in an alternative world where he has to face his own dark secret.

The aspiring Painter obsessively seeks for the perfect shade. In order to achieve that, he has to make a huge sacrifice.

24 year old Ádám lives the calm life of a small-time pot dealer in his late-grandma's apartment, in the outskirts of Budapest. Since he left home, he created himself a low-key but functional life, which no one can really disturb. No one but perhaps Bence, his 14-year-old half-brother who just left home and is looking for refuge at Ádám’s place.