The experience of seeing Anyuka is one of immediate intimacy, like sitting beside loved ones while flipping through a family photo album. Filmmaker Maya Erdelyi has crafted a moving and colorful experimental collage using both analog and digital techniques that centers on her grandmother, Veronica Földes Frame. Splicing together hand-drawn and stop-motion animation, photographs and ephemera, hours of audio recordings, and Super 8 home movie footage, the film vividly tells the story of Veronica’s forced migration from Hungary during the Holocaust. She first travels to Venezuela, living there before finally settling in the United States. Despite the pain of grief, separation, and loss of home, she blends three cultures and two faith traditions to create one family. Anyuka (which means mother in Hungarian) memorializes the root of Erdelyi’s thriving multigenerational lineage, celebrating the matriarch’s spirit of resilience. KL

Filmmaker Q&A following screening