20 years later, Olga returns to her grandparents’ home. The long-awaited reunion with her family is overshadowed by the sexual molestation that her uncle inflicted upon her in her childhood. Olga decides to confront herself and her uncle on camera.
Olga Lucovnicova’s documentary, winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, is a poetic and courageous journey into a past where nostalgic memories are juxtaposed with trauma.
Jury statement: A brave film about a difficult, personal but universal topic. My Uncle Tudor is very intense but, at the same time, the filmmaker gives us time and space to breathe and process the truth we see on screen. It is a graduation film but the film already displays maturity in the way Olga Lucovnicova handles it in such a delicate way.