HFF- Titita / Boys from the Block

Titita (Tititá)
(2015, documentary, digital, colour, 87 min.)

Anti is an 18-year-old gypsy boy with a passion for playing the guitar. He lives in a gypsy slum in a remote corner of Hungary. By an unexpected opportunity he has a chance to break out from his hopeless situation.
He gets selected to the Snétberger Music Talent Center among sixty other young talents. He is mesmerized by the chance of a better life and hopes for a miracle. Although it turns out soon that he has a huge disadvantage compared to the others, even to the gypsy students. He can’t read the music sheets and he is not used to regular practice. The sensitive and lovable boy’s story is full of unexpected twists and turns. The viewer is carried with his honesty and special humor.

Through Anti’s story the feature-length documentary gives a glimpse into the work of the Snétberger Music Talent Center with great music and memorable moments from the life of the Talent Camp.



Boys From the Block
During the battles of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, two 20 years old boys, friends from the same block, loving the same girl, suddenly find themselves with guns in their hands on the opposite side of the barricades. Is there any release, of will the stormy wind of history sweep away us all?
Drama without words.