It’s summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realisation that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab—who had a previous confrontation with Abel’s conservative father. The tensions of a polarised society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.

Gemenc is the biggest floodplain forest in Central Europe, where the water continuously shapes the land. The Danube determines the days of the plants and animals living here: it simultaneously provides, protects, threatens, builds and destroys. The meeting of the forest and the river creates a perfect habitat for its residents: the Gemenc floodplain forest is home to deer and wild boar herds, eagles, jackals, beavers, herons, kingfishers, as well as one of the biggest populations of protected black storks.

Feature film