On the evening of June 24, the closing event of the 16th Kecskemét Animation Festival was held at the Hírös Agóra in Kecskemét. There were 111 works in competition and prizes were awarded in 20 categories. The festival’s grand prize, the audience prize and the prize for the best European film went to Áron Gauder’s The Four Souls of the Coyote, sharing the latter with Nuno Beato’s Grandfather’s Demons. Nayola received a special award. The Pannónia-Matolcsy award for the best Hungarian full-length feature film was awarded to Műanyag égbolt. The best European TV series was Patouille and the parachute seeds. The award for the best short film went to Olivér Hegyi’s A hív kertje, while the Ágnes Bálint award for the best television series went to Orsolya Buzási-Gyopár for her work The Musician: Szorít a ház.
The Hungarian Film Critics Award went to Mira Zénó’s short film Fox Tossing, and Oliver Hegyi was awarded a special prize for his work A hív kertje. Márton Csutorás took home the Junior jury prize for the film Cured. The prize of the National Student Jury in the category of European films went to My Grandfather’s Demons, and a special prize was awarded to Dogs and No Italians!. Kühnel-Szabó’s short film Anita Apád won the award for Hungarian films by the Aranyhomok Small Region Development Association and the National Student Jury. The students gave Máté Fillér special prizes for his three works – Telexikon, Folkfonics – Szól a kakas and Endre Tót: Why paint? Bence Bárány was the winner of the critique writing competition, Mátyás Béres took second place, and Norbert Böhm took third place.
Update by Aggie Reiter
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