TITITA

Tamas Almasi
Director Tamas Almasi
Producer Tamas Almasi - Filmdimenzio Ltd., Julianna Ugrin - A Zene Felemel Ltd.
Cast Ferenc Snetberger, Antal Kuru, Adam Lakatos, Tamas Siska
Writer Attila Janisch
Editor Laszlo Hargittai
Camera Attila Kekesi
Sound Gabor Balazs
Music Ferenc Snetberger, Antal Kuru
Year 2015
Length 87 min
Country Hungary
Subtitles English
Age Recommendation 12+
Screening Thursday 8 November | 09:00 hours | T' Hoogt, Utrecht
Friday 9 November | 12:00 hours | Filmhuis Den Haag

An amazing story about the chance for a better life of a young Roma-boy with great musical talent. Will he take a golden opportunity and change his seemingly predestined life?

Synopsis

Anti is an 18-year-old Roma boy with a passion for playing the guitar. He cannot read notes, as music is mainly a feeling for him. Anti lives in a gypsy slum in a remote corner of Hungary. By an unexpected opportunity he has a chance to break out now from his hopeless situation. He gets selected to the Snétberger Music Talent Center among sixty other young talents. He is mesmerized by the chance of a better life. Although it turns out soon that he has a huge disadvantage compared to the others, he can’t read the music sheets and he is not used to regular practice. Tititá is a story of a sensitive and lovable boy; full of unexpected twists and turns that engages the viewer with moving honesty, drama and special humor. Through his story the documentary gives a glimpse into the work of the Snétberger Music Talent Center with great music and memorable moments from the life of the Talent Camp.

Director's bio

Tamás Almási, (1948), is one of the most well known Hungarian documentary filmmakers. He graduated at the Academy of Film and Theatre of Budapest in 1979. He started his career as a feature film director, which has had a very important impact on his documentaries. So far, he made more than twenty full-length documentaries that have been screened at many highly reputed international film festivals, and publicly broadcasted in almost forty countries. He taught filmmaking at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. He is the founder of the Doc Nomads, international film school, a joint Master Degree in Documentary Filmmaking delivered by a consortium of three prominent European universities across three countries: Portugal, Hungary and Belgium.


Festivals & Awards

Sarajevo Film Festival, 2015 – Special Jury Prize | Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2016 | San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival, 2016 | Lagów International Film Festival, 2016 | DOKUart Bjelovar, 2016 | Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, The Hague 2016


TOPICS

talent, education, artistic education, talent education, career choice, Roma minority, equal opportunities, social mobility, poverty, coming of age, intimate documentary portrait, documentary filmmaking and methods for an intimate story, chronological narrative and other topics related to the media