Jos Horemans, president of SIGNIS Europe is going to head the international ecumenical jury of 8th Jameson CineFest. ‘It is a great honour to be the president of the first international ecumenical jury in Hungary’, says Horemans, the leader of the European branche of the catholic world association for media and communication. ‘We are present at the world’s leading festivals and it is a great pleasure for us that in Hungary, at the dynamically developing Miskolc International Film Festival there will be a body of two catholic and two protestant members.’
At the world’s top festivals, these bodies have been granting awards for long decades now. Only few may know but many Hungarian films have also been awarded with the ecumenical jury’s award in Berlin and Cannes and other festivals. Jameson CineFest has prepared with a retrospective film selection to honour the first ecumenical jury in Hungary. The program contains such films as Szerelem (Love), the legendary film by Károly Makk (awarded in 1971, Cannes); Pál Schiffer’s Cséplő Gyuri (Gyuri Cséplő), which is focusing on roma matters and was awarded in 1978 in Locarno; the staggering documentary Száműzöttek (Exiles) by Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay (1991, Montreal) and the excellent but rarely screened Azonosítás (Man with No Name) by László Lugossy (1976, Berlin).
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Peter Muszatics
JAMESON CINEFEST - MISKOLCI NEMZETKÖZI FILMFESZTIVÁL
JAMESON CINEFEST - MISKOLC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2011. szeptember 17-25./September 17-25, 2011
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