GENTLE
A film about obsession with bodybuilding, romance, (un)fulfillment and love, told between sets of reps and counting calories. Under her partner Adam’s relentless supervision, Edina wins all major bodybuilding tournaments. At those tournaments, people around her are entranced and fetishize her body, and her performance becomes a kind of art. However, not even bodybuilding works without sponsors. Thus, Edina decides to make extra money by offering her body for pay to men whose fetish are women of Herculean strength. Among those men, who climax while watching her, appears one to whom Edina becomes more than a strong female body. She begins to realize the difference between her dreams (or what she thought were her dreams) and her true self.
Anna Eszter Nemes and László Csuja are screenwriter-director tandem.
László Csuja was born in 1984 in Debrecen, Hungary. He is a writer and director, known for Gentle (2022), Blossom Valley (2018), and Nine Month War (2019).
Anna Nemes is a painter, also known for Gentle (2022) and Beauty of the Beast (2022).
Audience Award, Festival Mix Milano 2022
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022
Best Feature Film, Maremetraggio International Short Film Festival 2022
Brussels International Film Festival 2022
Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2022
GENTLE (fic.)
Directors: László Csuja, Anna Nemes
Country: Hungary
Year: 2022.
Runtime: 92’
Language: Hungarian
Cast: Eszter Csonka, György Turós, Csaba Krisztik
Production: FocusFox Studio, Komplizen Film
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PROGRAMME: FIRST TWO STEPS