10-07-2021

FNE at Cannes 2021: Hungarian Cinema in Cannes

By National Film Institute - Hungary

    In the year that marks its 120th anniversary, the Hungarian film industry is celebrating four films in Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection.

    THE STORY OF MY WIFE (HU/FR/DE/IT)
    (A feleségem története)
    by Ildikó Enyedi
    Competition  

    Evolution by Kornel Mundruczo, photo: Proton CinemaJacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.  

    https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/a-felesegem-tortenete-the-story-of-my-wife

    EVOLUTION (HU/DE)
    (Evolúció)
    by Kornél Mundruczó
    Cannes Premiere  

    Acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history. Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva, to Lena and then Jonas is inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery by Mundruczó and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script by Weber. While generational traumas find new expression in the present, the family in EVOLUTION looks towards a more hopeful future.  

    https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/evolution  

    DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN (HU)
    (Napló gyermekeimnek)
    1983
    by Marta MESZAROS
    Cannes Classics  

    The orphan Juli and her grandparents, the remnants of the former emigrant family, return home from the Soviet Union at the end of the 1940s. Her aunt, prison director Magda, attempts to bring up the resolutely stubborn teenager to have blind faith in communism. She does not succeed. Juli remembers the past as her sculptor father was arrested by the KGB and her mother died. The teenager unconsciously understands that people have started to be arrested even in Hungary and the system of Soviet terror is back in operation. Juli matures into an independent woman as she researches memories of her parents. In this, only Magda’s brother, János, is any help. She sees her father in János.  

    Presented by National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive. The 4K digital restoration was carried out as part of ‘The long-term restoration program of Hungarian film heritage” of the National Film Institute – Film Archive. The restoration was made using the original image negatives and magnetic tape sound, it was carried out at the National Film Institute- Filmlab. The Digital Fonica M 120 in cinefondation 2021grading was supervised by Nyika Jancsó, DOP of the film.

    https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/selection/cannes-classics/restored-prints-10

    FONICA M-120 (HU)
    by Olivér Rudolf
    Cinéfondation  

    The 24-minute Fonica M-120 is a 2020 diploma film by Rudolf Oliver. The protagonist of the film is Áron a 10-year-old lonely boy. He lives with his mother in a room of a junk motel where he helps her run the bar. Hovering around the adults, Áron creates an extraordinary imaginary world in which the main characters are his father, a song, and a music box. One day a new guest arrives at the motel turning Áron’s world upside down. He has to make a choice where to belong. ’I wanted to make a film about a world made up of a little boy's memory fragments, his attachment to his childhood and his first love.’ – noted Olivér Rudolf.  

    https://nfi.hu/en/news/hungarian-diploma-film-in-cannes-cinefondation

    Hungarian diploma film in Cannes Cinéfondation

    Olivér Rudolf’s FONICA M-120 was invited by the Cinéfondation of the Festival de Cannes. Year after year, the world’s most prestigious cinema event showcases an exciting selection of works by the youngest generation.
    The 24-minute Fonica M-120 is a 2020 diploma film by Rudolf Oliver. The protagonist of the film is Aron a 10-year-old lonely boy. He lives with his mother in a room of a junk motel wherehe helps her run the bar. Hovering around the adults, Aron creates an extraordinary imaginary world in which the main characters are his father, a song, and a music box. One day a new guest arrives at the motel turning Aron’s world upside down. He has to make a choice where to belong. ’I wanted to make a film about a world made up of a little boy's memory fragments, his attachment to his childhood and his first love.’ – noted Olivér Rudolf.
    The screenplay was co-written by the director, Rudolf Oliver, András Kocsányi and Zsigmond Kungl, the main character is played by the 10-year-old amateur actor Kristóf Kovács, cast includes Tamás Keresztes, Mici Kunert and Éva Botos. The cameraman of Fonica M-120 was Dániel Podányi.
    Olivér Rudolf graduated in 2019 as a student of the University of Theater and Film Arts, Budapest.
    The prestigious Cinéfondation program, which presents exam and diploma films and is part of the so-called “official selection” of the Cannes Film Festival, has already presented early works by Kornél Mundruczó, Ágnes Kocsis, Bálint Szimler, György Kárpáti and Andrasev Nadja, among others.
    The 17 diploma films in the 2021 Cinéfondation selection were chosen from 1835 entries.

    Created in 1998 under the initiative of Gilles Jacob, the Cinéfondation, sometimes called "the head hunter" of the Festival de Cannes, is dedicated to young creators. Through three main actions, the foundation supports the film projects of young directors; from scriptwriting to recognizing their work on the international scale, to searching for financial support.

    The jury will hand over the Cinéfondation prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday, July 15th, in the Buñuel Theatre.

    Fonica M-120 (2020, 24 m, diploma film, SZFE)
    Directed by: Olivér Rudolf
    Main cast: Kristóf Kovács, Tamás Keresztes, Mici Kunert, Éva Botos
    Written by: Olivér Rudolf, András Kocsányi, Zsigmond Kungl
    DoP: Dániel Podányi
    Edited by: Eszter Málnási Csizmadia
    Music by: Babra band 

    http://www.cinefondation.com

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