INSTITUTE: Budapest Metropolitan University
YEAR: 2017
LANGUAGE: English /Hungarian
SYNOPSIS: The struggle of a Polish mother who is living in Hungary, for finding back her 12 years old lost kid, Eric; the suffering of a wife imprisoned in an unhappy marriage, in a country where she feels like a stranger; a destroyed woman, but who would do anything for her son. Three sides of a person enclosed in a single character that explains how impetuous a woman can be when her deepest bonds are in danger. Eric disappears: the father is annoyed, the mother is desperate. She only wants her son back. The film-maker dramatically captures the strength of the mother-son bond and the pride of the mother’s love.
BIOGRAPHY: Hakan Sağıroğlu is a self-taught photographer and film-maker who was born in 1990 as being a protesting reaction to a cold december evening in Istanbul. He met with the existance of art cinema after watching “2001: A Space Odyssey” when he was in high school. He worked as freelance photographer while he was studying at Istanbul University.
Right after the ending of “Gezi Protests” in Istanbul which he was actively participated during 2013, he took a snap decision and moved to Budapest for studying film-making. During his study in Budapest, he wrote and directed several short films, worked as 2nd Assistant Director in a featured film and made an internship in a Television Production Company. He graduated with a short drama -Eric- that he wrote and directed. Likewise, he wrote his degree thesis about “The Existantialist References in the -Inside- of Zeki Demirkubuz”.
As an artist, he has the interest into finding the harmony of antropology, psychology and philosophy in his works. Currently, he is living in La Seyne, South of France, and working as a volunteer at “Les Petits Frerers Des Pauvres”.
