When my grandparents were dying 4 years ago, my mother was going through a very difficult period of her life. The question of what was going to happen when her beloved parents would not be among us any more was ever-present at home. The fact my mother is a doctor, a person who has learnt about death and dying and who has encountered death many times, did not change a thing which was fascinating to me. My mother‘s uncertainty, despair and fear was the same like everyone else’s. This inspired me to create the main character Kamila who resembles my mother to a certain extent.

I decided to make a movie about death and dying where the mystery of death and especially the fear of death would be present in every frame. In order to experience these themes, you have to feel them through time and space. Therefore, I chose a specific film language which uses cinemascope and, in terms of movement and composition, complicated long one-shots that fully explore the space-time of the film.

It Can Be Any Day is a short movie about the ugly part of dying and about waiting for death as the legendary director Béla Tarr, whom I consulted the project with, pointed out. However, in my belief the film is essentially about the realisation that the worst death is to pass away alone.