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27 May

„Son of Saul” – Grand Prize – Cannes Film Festival- 2015.

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Hungary’s filmmaker received the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his outstanding and astonishing set of a Holocaust drama the „Son of Saul”.  This was László Nemes Jeles  – Hungarian director-screenwriter’s  first debut film. The film’s script was prepared by the author in cooperation with the French script writer Clara Royer during his  five months scholarship  stay in Paris  in 2011. The film plan was previously awarded in Sarajevo at the Film Festival with the Living Pictures prize.   The film drama received  Four awards  in Cannes …  FIPRESCI Prize running in the main competition section …  the François Chalais Prize and  the Vulcan Award at the festival.

A number of foreign actors took part in the film …  Germany, Poland, United States of America and Israel who were preceded  during the casting by tough sorting. The film  shots mainly took place at several Budapest locations and at the Mafilm studio. The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp buildings have had been demolished, therefore were reconstructed on the basis of photographs and historical research.

The drama in brief: the “Son of Saul” takes place in the venue the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1944.  A Hungarian Jewish prisoner named Saul  … played by Géza Röhrig … is a member of the Sonderkommando. It is a group of prisoners given humiliating and illusory privileges as trustees and minor amount in food ration to be able to carry the bodies from the gas chambers to pyres to be burned, then carting the ashes away to be dumped. At one of the occasions Saul recognize a body of his young son. Thereafter, in secret goes to search to find a rabbi among the prisoners to give the boy a proper burial. To achieve his plan Saul was using threats, blackmail and bribes and with so-called jewellery “shiny” stolen from the bodies.

The final cut was supported by financial and professional assistance from the Hungarian National Film Fund, which contributed a total of 310.6 million HUF.

The Son of Saul for the first time to be seen nationwide by the domestic audience after the Cannes International Film Festival will be from June, 11. 2015.

The American Sony Pictures Classics acquired the rights in distributing the film.

Update by Aggie Reiter

25 Nov

18TH ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL – BUDAPEST – 2014!

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MADE IN ISRAEL – THROUGH ISRAEL’S EYES!

Following the previous years success at the Israeli Film Festival in Budapest in the forthcoming days it will be present again and screened over a week.

Here is the latest Herald News to the 18th Israeli Film Festival … A selection of the latest award-winning films, contemporary movies, comedies to sensitive dramas … from riveting, political documentaries to hot-blooded romance presenting the best of Israeli cinema to Hungarian audiences.

The film festival takes place at the Pushkin Cinema through December, 4 to 9. 2014., organized in collaboration between the Israeli Embassy in Hungary and the Israel Cultural Institute in Budapest.

The films will be shown within their original Hebrew sounds, S/T with English and also Hungarian.

Here is a brief introduction  of the screened films …

THE GREEN PRINCE – 2014 – run time 99 minutes. … A captivating and emotional story. A story that one is tempted to think it is fiction. Two men, a spy and a handler, whom history insists must be adversaries, forge an unexpected trust and friendship. (WINNER 2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AUDIENCE AWARD, WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY.)  6.30 p.m. Friday, December, 5. Metropolis room. 6.30 p.m. Sunday December, 7. Metropolis room

GET– 2014 – 115 minutes … When film and reality meets … a story of a woman seeking a divorce at the Israeli court for  over five years. Been going to the rabbinic courthouse again and again, but her husband does not approve … she has yet to receive a get.  8.30 p.m. Saturday, December, 6. Metropolis room. 6.30 p.m.  Tuesday, December, 9. Metropolis room

A DECENT MAN – 2014 – run time 96 minutes  … The most caring of husbands and loving of fathers can also be a killer. The most brutal of killers can also be a loving father and husband. This applies to the men behind the Nazi genocide of Vanessa Lapa’s astounding film. 6.30 p.m. Saturday, December, 6. Metropolis room. 6.30 p.m. Monday, December, 8. Metropolis room

2 NIGHT – 2011 – run time – 87 minutes 10.30 p.m. Friday, December 5. Metropolis room. 7.30 p.m. Monday,. December, 8. Amarcord room

MAGIC MEN  – 2014 – run time 100 minutes … A father-and-son road movie in search of a Greek magician who saved the father during WWII. The journey opens up old wounds and forces the two men to face the truth, to try to bridge the gaps between them, and to once again be father and son. 7.30 p.m. Thursday, December, 4. Amarcord room. 8.30 p.m. Sunday, December, 7. Metropolis room

ZERO MOTIVATION –  2014 – run time 100 minutes … A dark and comedic portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female Israeli soldiers. The Human Resources Office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters who bide their time pushing paper and battling in computer games, counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. 8.30 p.m. Friday, December, 5. Metropolis room. 10.30 p.m. Saturday, December, 6. Metropolis room. 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, December, 9. Amarcord room

A FILM UNFINISHED – 2010 – run time 89 minutes – “A Film Unfinished seeks for the truth behind one of the most mysterious Nazi propaganda films ever shot inside the Warsaw Ghetto. It
engages us, challenges us, and most importantly, teaches us …  not only about history, but about what we take for granted, and what we assume to be truth. 7.30 p.m. Friday, December, 5. Amarcord room. 7.30 p.m. Sunday, December, 7. Amarcord room

KUMASI HAIFA – 2013 – run time 60 minutes  …  The film focuses on a group of teachers from Ghana who travel to Israel to learn innovative educational techniques, and return home to revolutionize early childhood education in Africa. The film touches on themes of cooperation, overcoming obstacles, unity across cultural boundaries, and female empowerment. 9.30 p.m. Thursday, December, 4.  Amarcord room

The a/m movies tickets can be already purchased at the  Pushkin cinema ticket booth.

District, V.,  18. Kossuth Lajos  Street – Budapest.

Update by Aggie Reiter