Magdi, a strong-willed but lonely caregiver, faces a daunting reality as she grows older: If she were to pass away, her disabled adult son, Feri, would be left to the inhumane conditions of the Hungarian state care system and would quickly follow her. Determined to secure a future for Feri, Magdi unites with a group of mothers who are in the same situation, and they take legal action against the state. Your Life Without Me is a story of the strength and sacrifices of these women who find their own voice through the common fight and their community.
CREW:
Director: Anna Rubi
Producer: Producer: Áron Szentpéteri. Co-producers: Annika Hellström, Erika Malmgren, Eszter Cseke, András S. Takács
Cinematographer: Anna Rubi, Júlia Halász
Sound: Gustaf Berger
Production
Somnus Film
Sales:
CAT&Docs
Awards
Human Rights Award — 30th Sarajevo Film Festival,
Best Hungarian Documentary — Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival,
Audience Award — Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival,
62nd Hungarian Film Critics’ Award — Best Documentary,
44th Hungarian Film Awards- Magyar Filmszemle - Best Documentary
Director
Anna Rubi
Anna Rubi was born in 1988 in Hungary. After building a career as a professional contemporary dancer, Anna studied media design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest and in 2015, graduated from the Zürich University of the Arts with a transdisciplinary studies MA. In 2015, she directed the collaborative web-documentary New Flower, exploring activism infused public space art in the ever urbanizing Addis Ababa. Her fiction short, The Last Day of the Empire, debuted at Raindance Film Festival in 2017. From 2017 to 2022, she was the video journalist of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, extensively working with disabled communities and activists on short documentaries and campaigns. Your Life Without Me is her debut feature length documentary.Selected Filmography
Your Life Without Me (2024), The Last Day of the Empire (2017), New Flower (2015), SEED (2012)
