Evolution

62nd TIFF: Greek Premiere

Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva to Lena and then Jonas are inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script. A powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern-day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Kornél Mundruczó

Script: Kata Wéber

Cinematography: Yorick Le Saux

Editing: Dávid Jancsó

Sound: Noemi Hampel

Music: Dascha Dauenhauer

Actors: Lili Monori, Annamária Láng, Goya Rego, Padmé Hamdemir, Jule Böwe

Production: Match Factory Productions, Proton Cinema KFT

Producers: Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Viktória Petrányi

Co-producers: Júlia Berkes, Michel Merkt, Tobias Pausinger

Costumes: Sophie Klenk-Wulff, Melinda Domán

Production Design: Judit Varga "Csuti", Albrecht Konrad

Make Up: Astrid Lehmann, Zsombor Ágoston

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Γερμανία, Ουγγαρία

Production Year: 2021

Duration: 100'

Contact: The Match Factory

Kornél Mundruczó

Kornél Mundruczó is a critically acclaimed multi-award-winning Hungarian film director. Mundruczó studied film and television at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Hungary. He is the founder of Proton Cinema. His first film Pleasant Days (2002) was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno; his following works all premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Johanna (2005 Un Certain Regard), Delta (2008 Official Competition) won the FIPRESCI prize, Tender Son (2010 Official Competition), White God (2014 Un Certain Regard) won the Prize Un Certain Regard, Jupiter’s Moon (2017 Official Competition). Pieces of a Woman (2020) was his first English-language film that premiered at the 77th Venice International Film Festival where it received the Young Cinema Awards and Volpi Cup for Best Actress.