Written and directed by Hungarian award-winning filmmaker Lili Horvát, PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME takes love and reality under the scalpel in a story about obsession on the streets of Budapest.
Spontaneously quitting her lucrative job in the United States, Hungarian neurosurgeon Márta (Natasa Stork) travels back to her homeland to rendezvous with a doctor (Viktor Bodó) she fell in love with at a convention. When he fails to show up for their appointed meeting – and, upon being tracked down, claims to have never met her – she begins to doubt her own sanity, opting to trace his movements to work out whether she has been spurned and gaslighted or, instead, simply dreamed up an idealised encounter.
Writer and director Lili Horvát describes Márta as a strong, dauntless, but also fragile character that audiences will connect with.
“This woman goes blindly yet determined toward something–even in the moments of greatest doubt, the strength of intuition shines in her. While sometimes her character is on the brink of madness, everyone who has ever waited in vain on a date, or who has projected something into their love, can feel what she feels.”
PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME premiered at the acclaimed 2020 Venice Film Festival and has won ten awards internationally. Locally, the film was one of the fastest-selling tickets at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME WILL RELEASE IN MELBOURNE AT SUN YARRAVILLE AND CINEMA NOVA ON FEBRUARY 24, 2022, and in Sydney at DENDY NEWTOWN, Canberra at DENDY CANBERRA and Brisbane at DENDY COORPAROO on March 17, 2022.
