A Hungarian Passport



Co-presented with the Toronto Jewish Film Festival


2001 / 72 min / documentary
Original Title: Passaporte Húngaro
Director: Sandra Kogut

This documentary chronicles Brazilian director Sandra Kogut's frustrating attempts to jump through all the bureaucratic hoops necessary for her to obtain a Hungarian passport. Throughout this pursuit, she unleashes a painful family history of forced emigration and a hidden legacy of anti-Semitism, and confronts some essential questions: What is nationality? What is a passport for? What should we do with our heritage? How do we build our history and our own identity?


Sunday, Nov 30 @ 5:00pm