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Nikol Cybulya: 'We were trying to find this kind of filmic blue but not too filmic because we also wanted to make a distinction between the reality and and the unreality' Photo: Courtesy of Warsaw Film Festival Tomorrow I Die sees debut director Nikol Cybulya weave elements of psychological thriller, folk horror and a spot of comedy together to tell the tale of a pregnant woman who finds herself undergoing a crisis while on a country retreat. Irma (Niké Kurta) has just returned to the cottage where, we will learn, her mother committed suicide years before. She also feels under existential threat, asking an old friend Stefi (Emöke Piti) and her half-brother Marci (Márton Kerekes) to join her in a bid to shake off her feelings of existential dread. The Hungarian film had its premiere at Warsaw Film Festival, where it received a special mention from the main competition jury.

“I think I will die tomorrow,” says Irma (Niké Kurta), a cryptic figure, on the verge of giving birth. She feels isolated and insecure, residing in the rural house where her mother took her own life many years ago. Yet some deep, inner turmoil has compelled her to return. While her husband Kornél (Zalán Makranczi) is away in Paris on a business trip, Irma impulsively invites her younger brother Marci (Márton Kerekes) and her best friend, Stefi (Emöke Piti), a photographer, to join her – a perfect pretext to reconnect with long-estranged loved ones. An eerie idyll, threaded with phantom sounds, seems to conspire with an unseen force, as if the lyrical subject itself is guiding Irma towards an unknown morrow.

The film’s most captivating character is a young girl adorned with a mauve wreath. Resembling a charming, albeit eerie, Sadako, she flits across the frame. She is an ethereal.