Anyák

2017 | 10 minutes | Documentary | Film & Archives 

Anyák (mothers in Hungarian) is a story of the 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 managed to bring up her children of mixed race in a safe environment in Communist Hungary in the 1980s. Sarah, the second of two anyak, is a Ugandan woman in her 30s, who is raising her daughter Tunde in Hungary today. Through their stories, the film reveals a lesser-known history of Hungary and explores the particular challenges of raising children across racial and cultural lines, then and now.