Three generations of Hungarian filmmakers will appear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), which will greatly help the international distribution of new works - said Csaba Káel, Government Commissioner for Film Affairs, Chairman of the Board of the National Film Institute (NFI) on Friday in Berlin at the festival's largest professional side event, the European Film Market (EFM) at the film industry fair.
Speaking to the public media, Csaba Káel pointed out that although many people know the Berlinale, fewer people know that a "very serious film fair" is organized in the German capital together with the festival, at which co-production and distribution companies seek contact with the producers of the films.
THE NFI IS ALSO A RETURNING PARTICIPANT, THEY PRESENT THE FRESH WORKS AND THE WORKS STILL IN PROGRESS EVERY YEAR, AND THEY ALSO MARKET THE FILMS.
This year's 73rd Berlinale also contributes to the success of three generations of Hungarian filmmakers in the festival's program.
THE OLDER GENERATION IS REPRESENTED BY GYORGY WHITE'S TWILIGHT, THE RENEWED VERSION OF WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED IN THE CLASSIC FILMS SECTION (BERLINALE CLASSICS).
This "compliments the work of our lab and our archive", emphasized Csaba Káel.
THE YOUNGEST GENERATION IS REPRESENTED BY ERHARDT DOMONKOS' ANIMATED SHORT FILM NAMED CORNER OF MY EYE. WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE NFI, MOHOLY-NAGY UNIVERSITY OF ARTS (MOME) DEPARTMENT OF ANIMATION HAS ENTERED THE GENERATION 14+ SECTION, WHICH PRESENTS FILMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, AND HAS ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE BERLINALE.
The third-generation Hungarian director duo, Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó, were just preparing for the world premiere of their first feature film on Friday, when the public media crew caught up with them at the Berlinale Palast, the center of the festival. As they said, there is a lot of interest in their animated sci-fi film Plastic Sky, as evidenced by the fact that tickets for all screenings are sold out.
The film, made with the support of the NFI, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and the Eurimages program of the Council of Europe, takes place in Budapest in the dystopian, negative, terrible and terrifying future, in the times after the collapse of the Earth's wildlife, where you can only live under the plastic sky mentioned in the title.
We tried to ask the question of what is important, life or human survival
- said Sarolta Szabó, emphasizing that, according to their intention, the film "provokes" the viewer.
We didn't want to make a didactic film about where what we do to the planet leads, but we want to start from the fact that all this has already happened, he said.
Source: NFI
Tibor Bánóczki added that the work, which can be seen in Hungary from March 30, is a "hybrid", a transition between a live-action and an animated film. This means that the so-called rotoscope technique was used, i.e. the scenes were recorded with actors, then each frame was redrawn during the production process, and the background was created using 3D animation technology, explained the co-director.
The review is also an important introduction forum for Hungarian cinematography, its main prize, the Golden Bear
IN 2017, ILDIKÓ ENYEDI WON WITH HIS WORK ENTITLED BODY AND SOUL, AND IN 2021, DÉNES NAGY WON THE SILVER BEAR AWARD FOR BEST EDITING WITH HIS WORK ENTITLED NATURAL LIGHT.
In the exhibition, which runs until February 26, all sections together will present 283 works from 67 countries.
Source and full article: Origo
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