>>> THE WOMB (Hungary)
Somewhere in northern Europe in the near future.
Rebecca and Thomas fall in love as children.
Rebecca moves away, but does not forget Thomas.
When Rebecca returns, she meets Thomas again.
Their love flares up at once.
They spend a happy month together.
Thomas is killed when hit by a car.
Rebecca is granted a permit from the human reproduction committee.
Thomas’s clone is implanted into Rebecca’s womb.
Rebecca gives birth to the clone.
Rebecca raises Thomas but keeps the cloning a secret.
Thomas becomes an adult.
One day Rebecca tells Thomas the story of his birth.
Thomas is confronted with his true identity.
Thomas goes away.
Rebecca is happy.
Womb is a film about symbiosis. It tells the story of a relationship overcoming
life and death. Womb is about sacrifice. Rebecca sacrifices everything in order
to bring Thomas, her lost beloved, back to life.
Benedek Fliegauf
Born in Budapest in 1974, Benedek Fliegauf works as a director, scriptwriter and sound engineer. Considered one of the best filmmakers among the new generation of Hungarian artists, the films he has made have obtained almost immediate recognition on the international festival circuit. In 2003, Forest (Rengeteg) won the Wolfgang Staute Prize at the Berlin Festival, and Best Young Director at Hungarian Film Week as well as the Jury Prize at Lagów. Made one year later, Dealer (2004) also won awards at over fifteen prestigious festivals including Berlin, Budapest, Montevideo, Athens and Paris. As a sound engineer, he pays particular attention to music and sound effects. He composed his own original and personal style of music with the Raptors' Kollektiva for his most recent film, screened this year at Locarno. Eschewing dialogue in his films, the Hungarian filmmaker creates a fully developed and highly distinctive world of his own from which viewers can make their own interpretations.
