With production booming, the most important Hungarian projects are heading to Cannes

The Hungarian film industry is booming, with 241 domestic productions – including feature films, shorts, documentaries and TV series – made in 2021. Here is a selection of the best projects in the pipeline or to be sold during Cannes:

As long as the grass grows
Director: Áron Gauder
Producer: Rika Temple (Cinemon Entertainment Cinema)
Annecy’s major winner Gooder (“The District”) spins an alternate creation myth, where humans are just one of many creatures in the animal kingdom, and offers a hopeful story that it’s never too late to correct course and save the planet.

siege
Director: dám Tsér
Producer: Tamas Lagos (positive film productions)
Based on the true story of the country’s first democratically elected prime minister, the film follows Josef Antal’s journey from a freedom fighter during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution to the infamous 1990 taxi siege that shook the nation.
Sales: Global Non-Food Sales

the game
Director: Peter Vaskas
Producer: Tamas Lagos (positive film productions)
An independent sequel to Peter Bergendi’s hit 2012 film “The Exam,” the spy thriller revolves around intrigues between the secret police in the 1960s in Budapest.
Sales: Global Non-Food Sales

grandson
Director: Christophe Diack
Producer: Tamás S. Zákonyi (Flashback Media)
Deák’s debut, winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, is an upcoming drama, disguised as a suspense crime thriller, with grim comedy undertones.
Sales: Global Non-Food Sales

Master game
Director: Barnabas Toth
Producer: János Szurmai (Innoplay Kft.)
Shortlisted for an Oscar in 2020 in the international film race for “Those Who Remain,” Toth’s next film is based on a novel by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and follows a young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the 1956 Russian invasion.

no thing
Director: Fanny Szilágyi
Producer: Ági Pataki and Edina Kenesei (Partnersfilm)
In a dual role, the impulsive Hungarian star Natasha Stork (“Preparations to stay together for an unknown period”) plays identical twins who fall in love with the same man and must face the lies they tell themselves in order to take their destiny. with our hands.



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