Greenwich Entertainment just snagged U.S. rights to an Oscar hopeful. Screen Daily reports that the distribution company will release “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time,” Hungary’s international Oscar submission, January 22 stateside.

Written and directed by Lili Horvát, the drama tells the story of Márta (Natasa Stork), a 40-year-old neurosurgeon who sacrifices her successful career in the U.S. and moves back to Budapest to make a life with the man she loves. “But she waits for him at the Liberty Bridge in vain — he does not appear at their rendezvous. Márta starts to search for him desperately, but when she finally finds him, the love of her life claims that they have never met before,” the source hints.

“I am honored by the response our film has received from both critics and audiences and for being selected as Hungary’s Academy Award submission,” said Horvát. “It’s been an incredible journey so far and I can’t wait for it to continue with Greenwich’s release in the United States.”

“It’s important that our heroine doesn’t navigate herself into the risky trials of this inner journey at the typical younger, [idealistic] age, but while approaching 40 — when a person has much more to lose. I see some great sovereignty in this,” Horvát told us. “There’s an inner space in all of us where processes occur that are undetectable on the surface — a secret life where we weave plans and dreams relating to ourselves. This is the real terrain of the film: insight, imagination, the realm of intuition.”

“Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” made its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and has picked up honors at the Chicago Film Festival and Warsaw Film Festival, among other fests.

Horvát’s first feature, “The Wednesday Child,” won the East of the West Award at the 2015 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.