One girl, one city, one day at a time. Plenty of saturated characters, often total strangers to each other, create spectacular thought-provoking narration about the mundane as the historical and vice-versa. In the existential comedy series, always shot from the First-Person point of view, the viewer becomes the main character that engages in everyday life that turns out far anything but dull. “Meanwhile in Budapest” was created as an antidote to everyday alienation between people.

SYNOPSIS:

It is a fruit of an experiment – to collect 1h footage of actualities throughout each day during 1 full year, making 365 hours of raw material. From 1% of the year’s footage (or nearly 3,5h collectively) was made 10 episodes of short documentary series. Each is made as a complete short story in a varied genre from musical to thriller.

Due to the series' hyper-realist nature, the DIY flair of a film made on a shoestring budget, and uncommon view of a few historical events, it quickly became an authentic gem cherished by homesick Hungarian intellectual expats.