Heights and Depths / Magasságok és mélységek, the debut feature by Sándor Csoma starring Emőke Pál and Zsolt Trill, depicts the death of famous Hungarian mountaineer Zsolt Erőss, and how his widow Hilda Sterczer coped with the tragic event amid painfully large media interest.
Riviera East / Nyugati nyaralás by Dániel Tiszeker and Balázs Lévai is a comedy taking the audience back to the last decade of the socialist era, when it was still quite hard to travel to Western Europe.
Six Weeks / Hat hét by Noémi Veronika Szakonyi, which debuted at the Sarajevo Film Festival 2022, follows a professional table tennis player, who after gaving up her newborn baby has the opportunity, according to the law, to change her mind during six weeks.
Central and Eastern Europe is represented by three other films in the competition: Vesper, with which Lithuanian director Kristina Buožytė returns to CineFest ten years after winning the Emeric Pressburger Award for Vanishing Waves (Tremora), EO by Jerzy Skolimowski, and Romanian Immaculate by Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark.
The festival ends on 17 September 2022 with the Hungarian premiere of Ordinary Failures / Hétköznapi kudarcok by Cristina Grosan, a Czech/Slovak/Hungarian/Italian coproduction that will screen out of competition. The film produced by Xova Film and coproduced by Rosamont, Laokoon Filmgroup, Super film and the Czech Television, in collaboration with ARTE G.E.I.E., will arrive in Miskolc right after its world premiere in the Venice Days section at the Venice Film Festival 2022.
The full lineup of the CineFest 2022 is available here.
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION:
A Love Song (USA)
Directed by Max Walker-Silverman
Boy From Heaven (Sweden)
Directed by Tarik Saleh
Close (Belgium, the Netherlands, France)
Directed by Lukas Dhont
Corsage (Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, France)
Directed by Marie Kreutzer
Decision to Leave (South Korea)
Directed by Park Chan-wook
EO (Poland, Italy)
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Produced by Skopia Film, Alia Film
Supported by the Polish Film Institute (PISF), the Subcarpathian Regional Film Fund, the Warmia-Masuria Film Fund
Holy Spider (Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France)
Directed by Ali Abbasi
Il buco (Italy, France, Germany)
Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
Immaculate / Imaculat (Romania)
Directed by Monica Stan, George Chiper-Lillemark
Produced by Axel Film
Supported by the Romanian Film Centre (CNC)
Heights and Depths / Magasságok és Mélységek (Hungary)
Directed by Sándor Csoma
Produced by JUNO11 Pictures
Coproduced by Sparks
Supported by National Film Institute - Hungary
Return to Dust (China)
Directed by Li Ruijun
Riviera East / Nyugati nyaralás (Hungary)
Directed by Dániel Tiszeker, Balázs Lévai
Produced by Little Bus Production
Supported by National Film Institute – Hungary
Six Weeks / Hat hét (Hungary)
Directed by Noémi Veronika Szakonyi
Produced by Sparks
Supported by National Film Institute - Hungary
The Accusation / Les choses humaines (France)
Directed by Yvan Attal
The Integrity of Joseph Chambers (USA)
Directed by Robert Machoian
Vesper (Lithuania, France, Belgium)
Directed by Kristina Buožytė, Bruno Samper
Produced by Natrix Films
Coproduced by VFX, 10.80 Films, EV.L Prod
Supported by the Lithuanian Film Centre
