Six Weeks

A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, assumes the lead in The Nutcracker ballet, and sight-sees most of the city.

Six Weeks (Hat Het), the feature drama debut of director Noemi Veronika Szakonyi, is a portrait of a young woman putting her child up for adoption. With a screenplay that she co-wrote with Mate Artur Vincze and Daoud Daniel, Szakonyi focuses on a defiant teenager, Zsofi (Katalin Roman), who gives up her newborn daughter.