Yugoslavia, 1991. Far away from the war zones Branka gets a job at a maternity ward of a state hospital. The young woman is all alone, but it turns out loneliness is not the hardest burden Branka has to carry. Newborns are disappearing from the hospital.

Director's Bio: Ákos K. Kovács was born in 1991 in Senta, Yugoslavia. After he finished high school in Subotica he moved to Budapest, Hungary, to study cinematography in the Metropolitan University. His BA diploma work, Away (directed by Roland Ferge) debuted at the Berlinale Generation in 2014 where it won Special Mention of the Generation Kplus International Jury. His other collaborations as DOP include Szabolcs Hajdu’s It’s Not the Time of My Life. Since then Ákos started to work on his own films as writer-director. Branka is his first short film.