Don't worry Sari!
Six years after her mother's death, Sári is trying to keep her family together. She steps into the role of her active, organizing mother, who was obsessed with VHS cameras in the 1980s, by filming the lives of her three closest male relatives, whom she sees as struggling with anxiety, loneliness, or self-destructive patterns. As the filming progresses, Sári realizes that she has inherited not only her mother's filmmaking ambitions but also her tendency to control everything in an attempt to solve others' problems. This personal documentary intertwines present-day footage, family archives, voice messages, and dreams, creating a sensitive portrait of how the layers of past and present interact and overlap within family dynamics.
Sári Haragonics earned her BA degree in media studies from the University of Bedfordshire, in England, in 2007, then completed her master's degree in documentary film directing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, in 2015. Her graduation film, Coming Face to Face, won the grand prize in the ZOOM-IN section of the Verzió International Documentary Film Festival. Her first feature-length documentary, Her Mothers (co-directed with Dér Asia), premiered in 2020 at the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, in Canada. Don't Worry Sári!, her second feature-length film, is a personal story about her own family.
Photo: Csaba Aknay
