Veronika Noémi Szakonyi's drama Six Weeks, which deals with the theme of open adoption, won the youth grand prize of the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, the jury praised Ádám Csásizi's Three Thousand Numbered Pieces and György Mór Kárpáti's film Next Summer with a certificate of appreciation, the National Film Institute told MTI on Sunday. .
Hat Höt, produced with the support of the film institute, tells the story of a teenage girl who is about to graduate and lives in difficult financial circumstances, who, after becoming pregnant, decides to give her daughter up for adoption to a couple who have been waiting for many years.
Although the girl initially feels that she has made the best decision for her career as a professional table tennis player, after giving birth she becomes uncertain and has only six weeks to change her mind, which is an extremely emotionally stressful period for both adoptive and foster parents, they wrote.
The international jury recognized with the prize the "extraordinary and multifaceted performance" of Katalin Román, the protagonist of the profound drama, the "amazingly empathetic direction" of Veronika Noémi Szakonyi, and the fact that the creators of Hat Hét managed to find a voice that young people accept as their own. away.
The script was written jointly by Veronika Noémi Szakonyi and her permanent co-creator Máté Artur Vincze with Dániel Daoud. The film was produced by Judit Romwalter, cinematographer Zoltán Dévényi, editor László Hargittai and Anna Vághy, costume designer Juli Szlávik, composer Andor Sperling, sound engineer Attila Tőzsér, visual designer Gábor Valcz.
In the communique, it was recalled that Veronika Noémi Szakonyi was recently awarded the best director award at the Arras festival in France. Katalin Román, the protagonist, won the award for best performance at the Bosphorus Film Festival in Istanbul in the fall. The film, starring Móni Balsai, András Mészáros, Zsuzsa Járó, Lana Szczaurski, Kati Takács and Anna Györgyi, received the grand prize at the CineFest in Miskolc during its Hungarian premiere.
It was written about the films recognized with the certificate: in the story of the film Háromezer numzözöt turak, a theater director prepares a performance about the lives of five young Roma with a difficult fate. "The play tells the story of their lives with unvarnished cruelty, that is, it deals with their traumas. When the performance is invited by a well-known German theater festival, the members of the group are forced to face their past and take up the fight against the whole range of racist stereotypes", they explained in the announcement, indicating that Ádám Csázzi's new film will be shown in cinemas at the beginning of next year, distributed by Budapest Film.
Next summer, György Mór Kárpáti's second film, takes place in a drama camp of a high school class and is about grief processing.
The film institute also reported that the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has grown into one of the most significant film festivals and busiest professional platforms in Northern Europe over the past 25 years, screening around 250 films and 300 short films and animations in two weeks.
Source: MH
Photo: National Film Institute
