The Art of Being Me

18th Ocober, Wednesday 6 PM

Three thousand numbered pieces

Film screening and discussion

Goethe-Institut, large hall

Hungarian film drama, 96 min, 2022.

In Hungarian with English subtitles

The language of the discussion is English.

A theatre director presents a play about the lives of five young Roma people who are facing hardship. The play tells the real story of their lives with unvarnished cruelty, i.e.: trading on their misery. When the production is invited to a prestigious German theatre festival, the group is forced to confront their past and fight racist stereotypes.

Three Thousand Numbered Pieces is the company’s surreal journey, blurring the boundaries between fiction, absurdity and sociographic reality. Can we talk about race without racism? Is the mutual hatred of minority and majority necessary?

Cast: Franciska Farkas, Rómeó Pápai, Wieland Speck, Christopher Pászik, Norbert Varga, Edmond Oláh, András Sütő, Kristóf Horváth

Director: Ádám Császi, screenwriter: Balázs Lengyel and Ádám Császi, producer: István Bodzsár, music: Csaba Kalotás, cinematographer: István Balázs

Distributed by Mozinet.

After the screening we will talk to the director Ádám Császi, the discussion will be moderated by Márk Szilágyi.