Lorand Balazs Imre

Viktor Orbán’s government seizes Hungary’s top independent media outlet, Index.hu. Journalists fight back by resigning and forming a new entity but face familiar toxicity. Can healthy communities survive in a corrupt system? Possible answers are revealed through the lives of three ex-Index.hu employees as they navigate challenges.

Young Hungarians are trying to make it in London.

Young Hungarians are trying to make in the Netherlands.

Sweet Home is the fourth episode of LEAVE/STAY documentary series on migration, life experiences, and the dilemmas of contemporary Hungarian youth, also nicknamed the generation of New Mobility. The episode comprises three independent stories of families returning home and facing major challenges in the process. All homecoming stories are different: some return due to success, some due to failure. Some set off alone and returned with a family. Some were homesick, some saw an opportunity coming home. The question in each and every case remains the same: will the ones who come back find their home again?

Stevan, a 60-year-old, former porn performer from Serbia awaits the outcome of a Kafkaesque trial process in a Maltese prison. The moody landscapes reflect the loneliness and desperate state he was in prior to his arrest for public exposure in this bizarre story, which unspools like an eerie mystery.

No Time to Heal follows Kyrylo, a Ukrainian soldier released after three years in Russian captivity. He arrives at the Forest Glade rehabilitation center, where soldiers are given just three weeks to stabilize psychologically before returning to the uncertainty of war. Observing therapy sessions, daily routines, and moments of quiet reflection, the film captures the fragile space between trauma and recovery. Through an intimate portrait of one man’s struggle to regain control over his mind and body, the documentary reveals the limits of healing when time, war, and duty leave little room for recovery.

In the vibrant metropolis of today's New York, two young Hungarian immigrants, Mirjam, journalist, and Attila, hand worker, make their ways, struggle with every day challenges.