Apám lánya | ©2025 | HU – SK | 77 min. | documentary | creative documentary

My Father’s Daughter

Director
Lea Podhradská
Producer
Inez Mátis, Krisztina Meggyes
Co-producer
Lea Podhradská
Story
Lea Podhradská
Screenplay
Lea Podhradská, Gergő Nagy V.
DoP
Krisztián Ollári
Editor
Tamás Szabó
Music
Judit Varga
Synopsis

Film director Lea decides to search for her sister Deni, who disappeared from her life when Lea was eight years old. For the rest of the family, Deni’s absence remained a taboo subject for 27 years, and no one ever tried to find her. Although Deni once attempted to contact her family, her message went unanswered. For Lea, this discovery becomes a turning point, prompting her to investigate her sister’s past. As her search unfolds, she uncovers new pieces of the story and gradually realizes that Deni’s life may have been very different from the version the family had believed for years. The film is an anatomy of family relationships. Somewhere within this tangled web lies the answer to why Deni was so easily cast out. It is also a journey into the past, which the director reconstructs through family archives and everything that has survived of the memory of a sister. 

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Director
Lea Podhradská
Producer
Inez Mátis, Krisztina Meggyes
Co-producer
Lea Podhradská
Story
Lea Podhradská
Screenplay
Lea Podhradská, Gergő Nagy V.
DoP
Krisztián Ollári
Editor
Tamás Szabó
Music
Judit Varga
Sound
Tamás Bohács
Animation
Simon Matrka
Production
Little Bus Production (HU)
Co-production
Story Lab (SK)
Budget
180 000 €
Support
National Film Institute (HU), Kultminor – Fond na podporu kultúry národnostných menšín (SK)
Co-production forums
EDN: Docs in Thessaloniki (Grécko, 2018), ESoDoc – European Social Documentary (Taliansko, 2018-2019), Dox in Vitro (Slovensko, 2020), WEMW – Impact Zone Lab (Taliansko, 2024), Dok.Incubator– dok.connect (Česká republika, 2024)
World premiere
Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2025
Release
HU: 12/2025, CineSuper
Festivals
National Film Institute (HU); forizs.tibor@nfi.hu; https://nfi.hu
Sales
National Film Institute (HU); kati.vajda@nfi.hu / marta.benyei@nfi.hu; https://nfi.hu
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