With the support of the ELTE University Film Club, the National Cultural Fund, and the Hungarian Documentary Filmmakers’ Association, a screening series featuring documentary films by Hungarian filmmakers is being launched. The next screening will feature Dorottya Zurbó’s 2018 film entitled Easy Lessons.
How does a Somali teenage girl who flees to Hungary find her place and herself? When she was still a child, Kafia’s father wanted to marry her off to an older man. With her mother’s help, she flees to Hungary to escape the forced marriage. At the age of 15, she arrives in the country alone and is first placed in a children’s home. She decides to learn the language and earn her high school diploma, while also looking for work and making new friends. She stays in touch with her mother online, but is afraid to admit to her that she has left the Muslim faith.
Dorottya Zurbó’s first independent feature-length documentary tackles an important topic in the most empathetic way possible. Easy Lessons singles out one face from the crowd to bring it into intimate proximity, while also exploring universal questions that every person who has been torn away from their homeland must face.
Date: 30 March 2026, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: ELTE University Square Campus, Weiss Emilia Hall (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3., ground floor, in the hallway next to the coat check)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSyxhtZ7CP4
Today, Kafia is known by her stage name Rea Milla; she has built a successful modeling career in Hungary and has also settled down in her personal life.
Our guests for the post-screening discussion are director Dorottya Zurbó and Dr. Kinga Mandel, an education and minority studies researcher and associate professor at the University of Pannonia.
Dorottya Zurbó is a film director and university instructor. In 2014, she received her degree through the DocNomads International Documentary Film Directing Master’s Program scholarship initiative launched by the University of Theatre and Film Arts. Previously, she graduated with honors from the Film Studies program at ELTE. Since 2015, she has been teaching in the Documentary Film Directing Master’s Program at the University of Theatre and Film Arts and in the DocNomads Master’s Program. Easy Lessons was her first feature-length directorial debut.
