Good Kids

Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.

Jef is stranded in Budapest and so spends a day reckoning with past and present lovers, as well as an estranged family, in this gorgeous low-fi indie drama.

On a film set inside a decaying socialist-era hotel, a young insomniac actress suffocates under her director’s manipulative gaze. Drawn to the half-dreamed nocturnal world of the hotel’s staff, she infiltrates their secret games by impersonating the long-lost love of the resident bar pianist. Blending haunted melodrama with meta-documentary, Night Method exposes the survival tactics of a Hungarian generation whose self-exploitation mirrors the very toxic patterns they long to outrun.

In an average Hungarian family home, a straight-A-student, yearning to be free, starts turning into a bear.