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A teenage girl's coming of age story through the maze of healthcare's bureaucracy: Lili wants birth control pills because she plans to lose her virginity.


"We had to shoot the film at a hospital which was out of service, because the other functioning hospitals were banned by the government to give shoot-approval -due to their bad condition.This threat is still exists, since most of our hospitals are looking like a post-apocalyptic zombie-sets..Wish I was kidding though!

We've been rejected by 9 hospitals (due to this mentioned collective ban, but also because of the screenplay's "critical portray of the healthcare bureaucracy"), and I was desperate. I called my mom and she told me a story about a closed hospital - where I went immediately and I got a contact from a security guard there, who told me the place is haunted (it was indeed: we didn't have water or electricity, and we had to furnish the place like a "functioning" hospital, what took us 2 exhausting weeks. But we've pulled it off! :))


BONUS FUN FACT IN THE ANECDOTE: this abandoned hospital was switching its owner from the hospital to the government during that time (because they wanted to build a new marble-castle on the property), so I needed to request the government's institute for the shoot approval, directly. By that time, I knew I have to censor my screenplay - so I cut the "risky parts" out and I got a green light easily. :)


The Hungarian premier of the film will be on the 65th Hungarian Independent Film Festival on the first week of this October and honestly.. I'm a bit afraid it might have a big scandal because I played the government's system out. But I don't care. Certain stories needed to be told!" - Annabella Schnabel

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Language
    Hungarian
  • Country
    Hungary
  • Filmmaker
    Annabella Schnabel