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Feels Like Home

Gabor Holtai
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Crime & Thriller 2025 124 min Hungary
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Synopsis

A powerful allegory of the threats of totalitarianism

One evening, Rita is abducted by a man who insists that she is Szilvi, his missing sister. Forced to assume this role within an entire family, she is locked inside a bleak apartment and forbidden from leaving. As she interacts with members of this strange family, Rita gradually comes to understand the sinister scenario unfolding around her and tries to find a way out of this psychological nightmare.

A taut psychological thriller in which family dynamics take on the contours of a mental prison. Anchored by Rozi Lovas’s arresting performance and the film’s rigorously constructed use of space, it unfolds as a powerful allegory of totalitarianism.

Cast/Avec

  • Rozi Lovas
  • Áron Molnár
  • Dorka Gryllus

Screenplay

  • Attila Veres

Cinematographer

  • Dániel Szöke

Sound

  • Kryštof Blabla

Music

  • Gábor Holtai

Production

  • Zoltán MÁRTONFFY

Age classification

  • 16+

Screenings

Friday 06 March 2026 18:00
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : Hungarian
Subtitles : English
Screening : 1st Screening
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Thursday 12 March 2026 16:00
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Lieux : Cinémathèque @Théâtre des Capucins
Audio : Hungarian
Subtitles : English
Screening : Jury Screening
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Friday 13 March 2026 20:30
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Lieux : Cinémathèque @Théâtre des Capucins
Audio : Hungarian
Subtitles : English
Screening : 3rd Screening
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Critics

"With its seemingly innocuous ‘fantastic film’ angle, Feels Like Home is still able to ask a very pertinent question: even when you know that horrors are sitting right before you, just how much are you willing to look away when you know you’ll be safe and sound if you do?”
Olivia Popp Cineuropa 05/11/2025

Gabor Holtai

Gabor Holtai
Gabor Holtai

Gábor Holtai is a Hungarian director, sound engineer, and composer. Trained in film and sound in Hungary, he has developed a body of work that brings together surrealist aesthetics and social critique. His short films, selected and awarded at numerous international festivals, are marked by a strong visual and sonic identity. Feels Like Home is his first feature film and premiered worldwide at the Sitges Film Festival.

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Filmography

  • Feels Like Home 2025
  • Second Round (short film) 2020
  • Property (short film) 2018
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