All articles by Blanka Elekes Szentagotai – Page 5
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HUNGARY
Following its success in its opening weekend with the year's third strongest opening performance, T3 is still holding strong across Hungary, in the capital as well as in all of the country's larger cities. In its shadow following the relative success of Monsoon Wedding, SPI International, the country's youngest distributor, ...
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Kiev Festival to host Berlin-style talent campus
The 33rd edition of the Kiev (Kyiv) International Film Festival Molodist (Oct 25-Nov 2), will host its first Talent Campus, in association with, and modelled on the Berlinale Talent Campus.Following the success of the Berlinale Talent Campus which was launched in February 2003, the Kiev Festival developed its own talent ...
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Hungary picks Forest for Oscar consideration
Benedek Fliegauf's Forest has been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the 76th Annual Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category. The five-member jury of the Hungarian Selection Committee for Academy Awards Entry decided on Fliegauf's multi-award winner for "finely balancing stylisation and realism. The film uncompromisingly ...
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Distant Lights to open Warsaw fest
The 19th Warsaw International Film Festival (Oct 2-13) will feature 15 films in its competition programme, a Ventura Pons retrospective and a selection of the newest Polish films as part of the Warsaw Screenings section.The festival, the country's sole FIAPF-accredited feature film event, will open with Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinale FIPRESCI-award ...
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Transylvania fest debates Romanian funding
While the shoot of Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain shows that Romania is becoming an increasingly favoured location for Western crews, local productions are still struggling to raise money to get off the groundState financing is almost the sole form of production money available to producers, a subject which proved the ...
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Budapest Film closes Almodovar, Ozon deals
Budapest Film, Hungary's largest independent film distributor closed several deals during and after this year's Cannes. Following its success with earlier Pedro Almodovar films, especially All About My Mother and Talk to Her, Budapest Film will also distribute the Spanish director's La Mala Educacion. The film is expected to be ...
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Noi Albinoi triumphs in Transylvania
Dagur Kari's Noi Albinoi took the top two prizes at the second Transylvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca.The multiple-award winner from Iceland walked away with both of the festival's main prizes on Saturday May 31, the Transylvania Trophy worth $4,000 and the Romanian critics' prize.There was also a local success ...
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Transylvania film fest announces competition line-up
The Transylvania International Film Festival has announced its program for its second edition to take place May 23-31 in Cluj. Over sixty features will be screened in three venues, out of which thirteen will be in competition for the Transylvania Trophy and the $4,000 prize. The competition is limited to ...
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Pleasant Days wins Sofia Festival's first international competition
Hungary's Pleasant Days has been awarded the Grand Prix at The Sofia International Film Festival's first ever competitive event.The seventh edition of the Bulgarian Film Festival had a total of 12 films were competing for the prizes awarded by a five member jury including Bulgarian actress Ani Valchanova, Croation director ...
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Hungarian film industry gets major cash boost
The chronically under-funded Hungarian film industry has received a major boost with Cultural minister Gabor Gorgey (pictured) approving funding of $20m for local filmmakers in 2003.Previously, a mere $1.5m state fund was available to the industry as seed finance - usually for non-commercial projects.Yesterday, Gorgey signed a declaration confirming the ...
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Beauty wins Hungarian Film Week main prize
The Main Prize of the 34th Hungarian Film Week was awarded to Peter Gothar's feature Hungarian Beauty. The story that probes the problems of two neighbouring families in present day Budapest beat the 21 other films in competition, judged by the five-member jury chaired by Sandor Radnoti. Three films received ...
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Competition heats up at Hungarian Film Week
22 titles will compete for the main feature film prize at the Hungarian Film Week in Budapest which starts today.The event, which runs between January 28 and February 4, will open with Miklos Jancso's latest film, Wake Up Mate, Don't You Sleep, land closes with a film from yet another ...
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Hungarian Film Week unveils competition line-up
The annual Hungarian Film Week in Budapest (Jan 28- Feb 4) will open with Miklos Jancso's latest film, Wake Up Mate, Don't You Sleep.The Film Week will close with a film from another Hungarian filmmaking legend, Karoly Makk's A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda. The feature film competition will ...
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Two short film festivals wrap in Romania
The end of November saw two important international short film festivals take place in Romania. The town of Tirgu Mures hosted the tenth edition of the Alter-Native International Short Film Festival between November 20 and 24. The festival screened fifty-seven productions in competition as well as a selection of popular ...
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Bulgaria adds Yesterday's Lunch to Oscar hopefuls
As one of the last country's to submit its Oscar entry Bulgaria's submission for next year's Academy Awards is a Bulgarian-Macedonian co-production, Warming Yesterday's Lunch ('Podgryavane Na Vcherashniya Obed). Based on a script written by Mile Nedelkovski from the book of the same name, the film was directed by ...
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Poland selects foreign-language Oscar contender
Edi by Piotr Trzaskalski has been selected as Poland's entry for the best foreign-language Oscar, Polish minister of culture Waldemar Dabrowski announced yesterday.Winner of the first "New Films, New Directors" competition at the Warsaw International Film Festival, the film was also awarded a special jury prize at the annual Polish ...
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Hungary, Romania submit foreign-language Oscar entries
Hungary and Romania have each submitted debut films from young directors as their candidates for the best foreign-language category at next year's Academy Awards.The Romanian candidate is Cristian Mungiu's Occident, produced by Temple Film, which screened in the Director's Fortnight section of this year's Cannes Film Festival. Hungary's entry for ...
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Nobel Prize helps greenlight Hungarian classic adaptation
Despite a string of international producers lining up with offers to film Imre Kertesz's Fateless, after the Hungarian author won the Nobel prize for Literature last week, it seems the project is going to remain predominantly Hungarian.Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai has been preparing his directorial debut - a film based ...
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Local title wins Warsaw festival's first international competition
Despite having lost its state backing, the 18th Warsaw International Film Festival this year introduced a new competition section, awarding the Grand Prix Nescafe, worth Euros 5,000 to a local Polish film Edi by director Piotr Trzaskalski.The 'New Directors, New Films' international competition section was a novelty at this year's ...
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Hungary's major international film festival kicks off
Following the success of The International Film Festival of Fine Arts in Szolnok, Hungary saw another event kick off yesterday: the Titanic Film Festival in Budapest. The tenth edition of Hungary's biggest international film festival will screen over fifty productions from twenty countries. The festival opened with a ...