How to be young — Season 1, Episode 3: Hungary
40 min • 1 season, 5 episodes
Episode synopsis
Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán is frequently in the news with new measures that restrict freedom and equality. How do young people deal with this? Margriet buys the now banned fairy tale book for children, in which all fairy tales are included. Young teacher Adam struggles with the new history books, in which there is no longer room for the old Middle East. Transgender Erik is no longer allowed to officially register his new gender and remains a woman on paper.
About How to be young
Margriet van der Linden sketches the often shocking and moving world of European young people. We live in an era rife with concerns: polarization, political instability and oppression. What do young Turkish women do when they are assaulted, raped or shot? What is the situation with the enormous group of Belarusian students in Lithuania who fled the violence of dictator Lukashenko? What inspires the thousands of Moroccan boys who illegally cross the border with Spain every year and for whom hardly anyone is waiting? And how are the Hungarian youth doing, who have to deal with a leader who is slowly but surely throwing democracy overboard?