Premiere Screening! Filmmaker in Person!
We warmly invite you to the Boston premiere of the award-winning film EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING, followed by a Q&A with director Gábor Reisz. The film has received top honors at some of the world’s most prestigious international festivals — including Best Film awards at Venice, Chicago, and Munich, just to name a few.
It’s summer in Budapest. Ábel, a high school senior, should be studying for his final exams — but he’s just realized he’s hopelessly in love with his best friend, Janka. Studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab – who had a previous confrontation with Ábel’s conservative father. The tensions of a polarized society come unexpectedly to the surface when Ábel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal. Ábel finds himself caught between two worlds, in the thick of it all, still in love.
2023 • dir Gábor Reisz w/Adonyi-Walsh Gáspár, István Znamenák, András Rusznák, Rebeka Hatházi, Lilla Kizlinger • 151 min • DCP • Hungarian w/English subtitles
Watch the trailer:
“A perceptive take on Hungarian political conflict.” – Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
“A perceptive, subtly chilling examination of our susceptibility to bad-faith journalism and trivialized politics” – Guy Lodge, Variety
“Accomplished, sophisticated and surprisingly even-handed” – Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily
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