"Mindenki" or "Sing" is a Hungarian 25-minute short film from 2016 that won writer and director Kristóf Deák tons of awards and also succeeded at the Oscars pretty recently in making this the man's most known work, unless you count "Munich" where he worked as an assistant in the editing department. But back to this one here. Unless you are fluent in Hungarian, you will need subtitles to understand the story. It is the tale of two young girls, one of them new at her school, and they sing together in a choir. However, the new one gets told by the teacher in charge of this choir to fake singing, to only move her lips because she just isn't good enough and she will keep the choir from winning awards. We find out that other students face the same fate, so that really only the gifted ones sing eventually. As a consequence of this, the film makes a pretty nice anti-discrimination statement at the very end and the music throughout is also great fun to listen to of course. Frequently these short film are really only memorable because of the ending and at a runtime of almost half an hour, that's a bit on the disappointing side. But this one here offers a solid story also before the powerful ending. I am fine with the Oscar win, even if I still need to check out the other nominees. Which I will do now. Feel free to take a look at my reviews there too. Finally a thumbs-up for the two Dorkas, really good child performances in here.
Review of Sing
