A banned Pride march in Budapest becomes the starting point for a generational exploration of contemporary queer identity, navigating memory, conflict and the desire for normalisation. In the summer, the protagonist sets off for Budapest to take part in a Pride event that has been declared illegal. That experience marks the start of a journey that extends beyond Hungary’s borders and becomes a cultural and generational exploration.

Director's Statement

The film interweaves the account of that event with a series of interviews with LGBT people in their twenties, conducted in various Italian cities. Their voices, free from preconceived notions, address themes such as sexuality, emotional life, relationship models, identity, belonging, normalisation and conflict.
Amidst this chorus of testimonies, a comparison with Pier Paolo Pasolini emerges: the most famous Italian homosexual and, at the same time, a figure profoundly alien to the contemporary idea of pride and integration. Pasolini becomes a posthumous interlocutor, an ‘uncomfortable father’, who compels the younger generations to question the meaning of difference, desire and the price of normalisation.
Straddling memory and the present, the film brings together activists, artists, intellectuals and young LGBT voices, highlighting the tensions between integration and irreducibility, between social recognition and the loss of conflict.
Pasolini in Budapest is a secular, generational exploration of queer identity today, of the relationship with symbolic fathers, and of the possibility of imagining a future that does not erase difference.