[1] The feature debut of Peter Strickland, he used the money from a bequest from his uncle to fund the project.
Filmed over 17 days in the Hungarian-speaking part of the Romanian region of Transylvania, Strickland completed the project for £28,000.
Together with her child, she sets out to find Antal, the man who raped her 11 years earlier, Orbán's biological father.
It’s the sort of film that looks as if it is going to drift dreamily away in an arthouse torpor; in fact, it comes to a satisfying narrative crunch.
It’s a woozy noir, with a hint of the supernatural.”[4] The film was in the competition for the Golden Bear at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, where it was awarded the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution (sound design): György Kovács, Gábor ifj.