Delta (2008)

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New auteur Kornél Mundruczó follows in the aesthetic footsteps of Hungary's acclaimed Bela Tarr with this lushly photographed drama set along the Danube.

Mihail (Felix Lajko) returns to his mother's village after years of absence to discover he has a grown half sister, Fauna (Orsi Toth). Mihail has ambitions to rebuild his father's house and support himself through fishing. When he moves to an island that once belonged to his family, Fauna tags along, eager to escape her brutish father. What should be an idyllic existence is disrupted by the small minds of petty villagers.

Shot in the delta region of the famed Danube River, Delta is provocative yet gentle, brutal yet beautiful. Winner of the Fipresci Prize and nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes.