Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #68. Bence Fliegauf’s Lily Lane

Lily Lane

Director: Bence Fliegauf
Writer: Bence Fliegauf

We had pegged Bence Fliegauf‘s latest Lily Lane as a definite 2015 title, but it was not to be. Those familiar with the films of the Hungarian filmmaker may find his style hard to pinpoint. He’s been building a reputation as an experimental filmmaker since 2001’s Talking Heads. Since then, his films regularly screen at Locarno (he won the Golden Leopard with 2007’s Milky Way). His first English language feature, the delightfully bizarre Eva Green film, Womb (2010) saw his audience widen, even as that also faced similar distribution issues. In 2012, Just the Wind snagged him the Silver Berlin Bear (along with several other accolades), and is still without distribution. Favoring strange and unnerving narratives, we’re greatly excited to see he has another project ready for the coming year (see on set pic above), Lily Lane, which the director describes as a story about a woman who receives news of her mother’s death, which drives her to try to seek out her long-lost father and return to the place where she spent her childhood. At the same time, she starts to tell her son a series of stories to reveal memories of her dark past. When they both set off down Lily Lane, they have no idea what is in store for them, and they find themselves in a world of mystical urban awakening, full of wonder and secrets.

Cast: Angéla Stefanovics, Bálint Sótonyi

Production Co./Producers: Hímpor Film’s Erno Mesterházy (Our Women)

U.S. Distributor: Rights available TBD (domestic/international)

Release Date: Fliegauf should be primed to return to Berlin, but we should expect to see this pop up in a Cannes sidebar if he doesn’t show up there.