Short Film: Work In Progress (Átalakítás folyamatban), 20min., Hungary, Comedy/Romance

Atalakitas folyamatban meghivo 0521logline:
Everyone here wants a new pair of boobs or a new butt. What is it you hate about yourself?

short synopsis (300 characters)
65 years old and very tired MIMI enters a low-budget beauty clinic with a face-lift voucher got from her husband. She checks in and a whole new world opens up: older, younger women, men, animals await their transformation. Finally she realises that it might not be a plastic surgery what she needs.

long synopsis:
MIMI (65) enters a bizarre beauty clinic with a face-lift voucher she got from her husband. She checks into the former hotel sitting on the shore of an isolated lake, where a whole new world opens up: older women, men, and animals await their transformation.
She attends face yoga classes and prepares for her new face. One afternoon ERNŐ (61), a mysterious male patient asks her for help: he’s dying for a pack of cigarettes but he’s locked in the clinic. Mimi agrees, and with the help of a cosmic turtle, she becomes a teenager again.Their romantic escape plan turns into a failed date and Mimi realises that it might not be a plastic surgery what she needs.

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The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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