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Prizes:
2012 - Bucharest Romania International Film Festival
Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement

2012 - Louisville International Festival of Film
Best Film

Retrace (Visszatérés - Retrace)
(2011, feature, 35mm, colour, 98 min., 1:1,85, DolbyDigital)
Co-produced with Romania

Director: Judit Elek
Screenplay: Judit Elek
Consultant: László Csiki, László Berger
Director of photography: László Berger
Editor: Zoltán Varga, Judit Elek
Sound: György Kovács
Art director: Csaba Damokos
Costumes: Györgyi Szakács, János Breckl
Producer: Judit Elek
Co-producer: Cornelia Palos
Production company: Dánielfilm Stúdió, Artis Film / RO
Cast: Kathleen Gati, Philip Zandén, András Demeter, Sarah Clark, Hilda Péter, Manna Kenderessi

Katherine, who survived the Holocaust at the age of seven, visits her once left fatherland of Transylvania, Romania for the first time departing from Sweden with her family. Not only the happy and the frightful memories of her once forgotten past come to life, but she also has to face the depressing reality of Ceausescu’s communist dictatorship and the romance developing between her husband and her sister. Parallel to her story and simultaneously we get to know her childhood love and friend Sándor, who serves the dictator as a forester and whose story has a tragic ending. The film ends with the surprising and odd encounter of the two stories.

Inspired by Marguerite DURAS (Summer Night / Dix heures et demie du soir en été) and Miklós MÉSZÖLY (Chevaux Ailés / Horses on Wings)

2011 - Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles: Best Actress Award to Kathleen Gati

Festivals:
2013 - Warsaw International "Jewish Motives" Film Festival
2012 - Bucharest Romania International Film Festival
2012 - Chicago EU Film Festival
2012 - Cluj-Napoca Transilvania
2012 - Lagów International Film Festival
2012 - Los Angeles Hollywood Fringe Festival
2012 - Louisville International Festival of Film (in competition)
2012 - Palic International Film Festival
2011 - Ashkelon Jewish Eye Festival (in competition)
2011 - Moscow International Film Festival (in competition)