Hungarian filmmaker Dorka Vermes, whose debut feature “Árni” was nominated for a Queer Lion Award at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, is developing her sophomore effort, “Places Half Empty,” a film that’s billed as a controversial and intimate portrait of a queer relationship in the context of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
The film, which won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award this week at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink industry strand, follows Noá, an independent but struggling thirtysomething working as an illegal cab driver. One night she picks up an affluent young suburban woman, Juli, who is desperately trying to break free of her overbearing family.
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