Katalin Varga

Cult British auteur director Peter Strickland launched his career with Katalin Varga, a broodingly atmospheric revenge thriller set in Romania’s remote Hungarian-speaking regions. Hilda Péter radiates quietly murderous intensity as the eponymous heroine who flees her home village with her young son, Orbán (Norbert Tankó), for a lethal reckoning with the men who once wronged her. Shooting in a language he barely speaks, on a tiny budget funded entirely by a modest family legacy, Strickland proves an impressively resourceful master of suspense.