Anyák

2017 | 10 minutes | Documentary | Film & Archives 

Anyák (mothers in Hungarian) is a story of motherhood experience of two women who belong to different ethnicities, cultures, and generations, and yet have a lot in common. 

Klara is a Hungarian woman in her 70s, a mother of a large family, who built a safe environment for her mixed-race children in Communist Hungary in the 1980s. Sarah, the second of two anyák, a Ugandan woman in her 30s, is raising her daughter Tunde in Hungary today, where the government actively promotes nationalist rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Through their stories, the film reveals a lesser-known history by uncovering the experiences of Black and mixed-race families in Hungary, across two distinct political periods.