The closing ceremony of the 17th Kecskemét Animation Festival was held tonight in the Hírös Agora in Kecskemét. 96 works competed and awards were given in 21 categories.
The festival’s grand prize went to Anna Tőkés’s film The Last Throw .
The award for best European feature film went to Oscar-nominated Claude Barras’s work The Wild Ones , while Nina and the Hedgehog’s Secret received a special prize.
The Pannónia Award for best Hungarian feature film and the audience award went to Blue Pelican . Gypsy Tales was the best European TV series.
The best short film and critics’ awards went to Gábor Ulrich’s work Capriccio , while the Ágnes Bálint Award for best television series went to Péter Bogyó for the episode The Hungarian Folk Tales: The Prince and His Three Friends .
The biennial international military parade took place this year between May 27 and June 1. Tomorrow, the public will be able to see the winning works again.
Kata is a member of the rhythmic gymnastics team, where the competitors are subjected to extreme training methods. The pressure is mounting as the final approaches. The award for Best European Feature Film went to Oscar-nominated Claude Barras’s Wild Ones, while Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol’s film Nina and the Hedgehog Secret received a special award. The award for Best European TV Series was given to Gypsy Tales. Roland Tóth-Pócs and László Balajthy received the award for the episode Lóvátett kupecok. The award for Best TV Special went to Augusto Zanovello for his work Lola and the Noise Piano.
The Pannónia Award for Best Feature Film and the Audience Award were both given to Blue Pelican (directed by László Csáki). The best short film and the Hungarian Film Critics Award went to Gábor Ulrich’s Capriccio, while the Ágnes Bálint Award for the best television series went to Péter Bogyó for the episode Hungarian Folk Tales: The Prince and His Three Friends.
The jury awarded the best applied animation to Gyopár Orsolya Búzási’s Bernády Amerikabá megy. The best student film was awarded to Anna Tarcsi’s Szökés. The special award for the best exam film went to Borbála Fendrik for her film 110 years of Hungarian animation. Mirjana Balogh’s Wish You Were Ear was awarded for the highest quality visual language, and the junior jury also awarded this work the best short film award.
The best music category, Bálint Szabó won for the music for A madár gyermekei (directed by Júlia Tudisco). Csaba Máli and Zsolt Pálfi were awarded the best animation work for the film Csongor and Tünde. Béla Klingl also received the Best Digital Animation and the Special Award of the Hungarian Film Critics for his work Creation.
The members of the jury for the European feature films competition were Áron Gauder, Kajsa Naess and György Raduly, the European television awards were decided by István Gulyás, Gergely Tamás Kucsera and Michal Minich-Mlcousek, while the awards for Hungarian films were decided by Orsolya Sipos, Csilla Szabó, Bella Szederkényi, József Szurcsik and Zoltán Varga.
The Junior jury awarded the best television series award to Ervin B. Nagy for the episode Cserebogarak: A fekete párduc.
The Student Jury Award in the best Hungarian film category went to Vivien Seder Hárshegyi’s Night Fever, and in the European film category to Benoît Chieux’s Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds.
The Golden Sands Micro-Regional Development Association Award went to Miklós Weigert’s animation Floki: In Search of the Lost Howl.
Update by Aggie Reiter
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