Fruzsina Czvetkó

Balint is 18. He crushes on a girl, and then the next one, and the one after. In the rapidly passing Hungarian summer, the impermanence of his desires fills him with despair. When his heart becomes divided between a mysterious girl living in the forest, and a melancholic virgin, he decides he will have two first loves, not just one.

An amateur cameraman cruises the streets examining characters and recording his secretly observed moments along the way. He begins influencing and shifting reality, bringing us on a journey through his memories and fantasies.

The skeletal remains of factories on People’s Island today serve only as mementos of a time when this landscape was considered a prime industrial area of Budapest and the Danube. The rust belt is dynamically transforming, taking on a new face each year. Change is inevitable, but in whose interest is the island being transformed? And what impact does this transformation have on the people living on the island? 'Songs from People’s Island’ is a visual study and musical panorama with elements of absurdist tragicomedy, exploring the changes occurring on the island from the perspective of a homeless islander.