Iska's Journey

Running time: 92 mins

Iska longs for a place free of the poverty and pain she has known her entire life.

Winner of the Grand Prize at Hungarian Film Week, Iska?s Journey, a provocative drama, follows the memorable adventures of Iska. Though only 12, she decides she cannot live any longer in her family?s cruel and abusive environment and bravely sets off on an intense and dangerous journey toward freedom and the light of a new beginning. With only a vague destination in mind, Iska travels toward the sea encountering one obstacle after another, each more difficult and perilous than the last. When a child prostitution ring kidnaps her, the journey seems to have reached a bitter end. But there is so much more strength to Iska than her abductors could have ever imagined. She?s not about to give up without a fight, no matter what it takes.

Kristy Wolk