Hungary, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, United States
- 2026
Opening Film
Spanish premiere
Margot, a brilliant young scientist with a troubled marriage, disappears while hiking with her husband, Sam. Weeks later she miraculously reappears the day of her own memorial service. She remembers nothing about her life —except her Mars research, which she is desperate to find and destroy. Clearly, she is not the same as before, yet Sam accepts Margot’s return as a second chance at their love.
Lili Horvát
Born in Budapest in 1982, she studied Audiovisual Arts at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, and film directing at the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest. She has directed the short films ‘Vákácio’ (2006) and ‘Uszodai tolvaj ’ (2007); the documentary film ‘Budapest ostroma: episode IV’ (2007); the medium-length feature ‘Sunstroke’ (2009) and the TV drama ‘Hazafelé’ (2009). ‘The Wednesday Child’, Lili’s first feature, won the East of the West competition at Karlovy Vary 2015 and was selected for the Valladolid Festival’s Meeting Point section. ‘Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time’, her second feature, premiered in the Giornate degli Autori section of the Venice Film Festival, before winning the Golden Spike in Valladolid (and the Pilar Miró and Best Actress awards) and becoming Hungary's submission for the Oscars. 'My Notes on Mars', her third feature film and first shot in English, had its world premiere as the opening film of Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival.
DIRECTOR
Lili Horvát
SCREENPLAY
Lili Horvát
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Róbert Maly
EDITOR
Károly Szalai
SOUND
Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson, Rudolf Várhegyi, Tamás Bohács
MUSIC
Gábor Keresztes
PRODUCTION
Dóra Csernátony, Lili Horvát, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck, Jovan Marjanovic, Mirsad Purivatra, Naima Abed, Emilie Georges, Anne Carey, Evan Moore, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maja Kecojevic
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Poste Restante, Amour Fou Vienna, Obala Art Centar, Amorfortuna, Komplizen Film ZDF/Arte, Paradise City
CAST
Mackenzie Davis, Rupert Friend, Atanáz Babinchak, Ed Cantu, Elizabeth Lande, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Mari Kiss, Adriana Altaras
RUNNING TIME
111 min.
TYPE
Feature film
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2026
VERSION
O.V. in English and Hungarian with Spanish and English subtitles
COUNTRY
Hungary, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, United States
