In-Between: The Long Way Home
(Six Families, Seven Years)
2026, 86 m
About The Film
In 2019, six Hungarian newcomer families arrived on Canada’s West Coast, chasing the promise of safety and professional growth. Armed with high hopes and a handful of suitcases, we began documenting our new lives in Vancouver. But as the years unfolded, the grinding reality of starting over from scratch began to take its toll.
Through a seven-year longitudinal lens, In-Between captures our most intimate struggles as we navigated medical crises, career setbacks, and the universal pillars of migration: profound isolation and cultural grief. Beneath the surface of our daily lives lies a deep generational dilemma - how much of our native culture to preserve, and how much to pass on to our children growing up between two worlds. Moving, lyrical, and deeply human, the film ultimately reveals a quiet, exhausting truth: immigration is not a single, final act, but a choice that must be remade every single day.
An Anthropological Experiment & Art Therapy Process
More than just a traditional documentary, In-Between was born as a unique collaborative anthropological experiment and a deeply transformative art therapy process. To protect the radical vulnerability of our journeys, we chose to film without an invasive production crew. Instead, we passed a single handheld camera from hand to hand, allowing the camera to become a trusted, shared confidant. Over the seven-year journey, as I expanded my own practice into art therapy, I realized that the process itself had become our collective tool for meaning-making. Turning the lens on our shared displacement provided a safe, creative container to externalize our invisible isolation, process severe life crises, and gently piece together our hybrid, resilient identities as Hungarian-Canadians.