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Lost Times (Utolsó idök) Making a Difference: Myanmar, nepal, and Swaziland
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Employing a pale color scheme and soft-focus lensing, Lost Times writer/
12 Stones Likhaya
Director: Áron Mátyássy director Áron Mátyássy paints an ironically gentle picture of an eastern
Director: Sandy Smolan Director: Aaron Kopp
Producer: István Bodzsár Hungarian border town and the surrounding landscape. Life inside the
USA/Nepal / 2009 / 12 min. USA / 2009 / 15 min.
Screenwriter: Áron Mátyássy
dreary village is anything but, especially for autistic adolescent Eszter
Cinematographer: Máté Herbai
and her brother Ivan – who ekes out a pitiful living as an out-of-work
12 Stones is a remarkable documentary about even An amazing group of people live on a small sustain-
more remarkable women living in a small, rural, able farm in Swaziland in southern Africa, the
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Editor: Zoltán Kovács
car mechanic but hopes to capitalize on a new highway construction
poverty-stricken community in Nepal. Though country with the world’s worst HIV/AIDS rate. This
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Cast:
project nearby. Ivan’s dream is to build a gas station in town; lacking
József Kádas, Teréz Vass,
Mariann Szalay, Attila Géza László,
funds, however, he resorts to smuggling diesel fuel across the Ukrainian
illiterate, they are being trained and empowered documentary paints a serene portrait of the women il
Eszter Földes border. Unfortunately for him, the local mafia controls all the area ser-
to establish a sustainable way of life by raising and children who are, in their own small way,
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vice stations in the area – and threatens him over the illegal contraband.
livestock, building homes, planting vegetable turning the epidemiological tide by running their
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gardens, and teaching others to do the same. With farm as an agriculturally based, holistic orphan-care
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One fateful day, Eszter wanders off into the forest and is raped by a
breathtaking cinematography and keen sensitivity, program.
Áron MÁTYÁSSY
stranger. Hippies living nearby offer no clues to the police, who prove
director Sandy Smolan celebrates the astounding
Áron Mátyássy was born in Budapest in unhelpful in any case – as does Eszter, who turns mute, refusing to
transformation of these women.
1978. He graduated from the Budapest
discuss the crime with anyone, including Ivan. His world continues to
Academy of Drama and Film, where
crumble when his new love, ambitious student Ilus, completes her
he studied under Fernec Grunwalsky.
Crossing Midnight
He has made several short films since
schooling and informs him that she has been accepted to a university in
2003, including Minus, which won the
a different town. Meanwhile, by chance, Ivan discovers additional facts Director: Kim Snyder
Most Promising Talent Award at the about Eszter’s rape. Alone as he feels, must he pursue justice on his own
USA/Myanmar/Thailand / 2009 / 29 min.
Budapest Short Film Festival. Lost Times
as well?
is his feature debut.
Since 1988, millions have fled the military dictator-
ship of Burma (now Myanmar) into Thailand. Twenty
years ago, Dr. Cynthia Maung and a group of stu-
dents established a one-room clinic on the border
that has grown into a center with more than 500
health care workers and a virtual army of “backpack
medics” who treat these refugees.
Sponsored by:
In cooperation with:
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UC Denver College of Arts & Media
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