Director – Anna Gyimesi
Producer – Genovéva Petrovits, Kino Alfa
DOP – Dániel Császár
Editor – Anna Gyimesi
Assisant director – János Szén
Focus Puller – Balázs Molnár
Gaffer – Benedek Balogh
Cast – Annamária Fodor, Domokos Szabó
Electricians – Soma Hrabéczy, Zoli Farkas
Camera trainee – Rozi Németh
Production manager – Evelyn Balogh
Production assistant – Blanka Szebegyinszki, Anita Ureczki
Location – Olivér Szendrey-Nagy
Production designer – Borbála Hakkel
Assistant Production Designer – Fanni Baranyi
Make-up/Hair – Bernadett Magyar, Blanka Balogh, Lilla Bakó
Wardrobe designer – Adrienne Nagy
DIT technician – Ferenc Medve
Colorist – Gábor Szebeni

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Unspooling 19 to 27 January, the 35th edition of the Trieste Film Festival is set to open with Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World [+] by Romania’s Radu Jude, a film confirming the talent of this highly original director who walked away with the Special Jury Prize at the most recent Locarno Film Festival. The Italian event dedicated to movies from Central and Eastern Europe and directed by Nicoletta Romeo will proceed with a second opening film, Green Border [+], by master of European cinema, Polish director Agnieszka Holland, who scooped the Special Jury Prize in Venice. Meanwhile, the festival’s closing film – The Zone of Interest [+] by Jonathan Glazer – bagged the Grand Prize and Fipresci Prize at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.

For its part, Off the Beaten… Screens, a section dedicated to stylistic solutions and innovative narration, will be presenting the debut film Cherry Juice by Bosnia’s Mersiha Husagic, the road movie Arthur & Diana [+] – a German production and second work by Italian-French director Sara Summa -, the medium-length film Cactusman by Hungary’s Olivér Rudolf and Maris B653, a short film by Friuli-born director of photography and video artist Debora Vrizzi.

https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/453515

Olivér Rudolf’s short film Cactusman, with which he graduated from the Vienna Film Academy with a master’s degree in filmmaking with the FreeSzfe Association – Cactusman is produced by Szabolcs Hajdu (Látókép), Genovéva Petrovits and co-produced by Gábor Osváth (Filmfabriq), Panni Szijártó (Kinomoto) and Gábor Böszörményi (Mozinet).

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90 min – Feature

Planned shoothing date – 2024

Director – Renátó Olasz

Writer – Renátó Olasz, Anna Hámor

DOP – Csaba Bántó

Producer – Genovéva Petrovits

Logline

The film tells the story of one day, centered around two sisters, Bianka and Milán. On December 22nd, they travel from Budapest to their hometown in the countryside to celebrate Christmas. As the „prodigal sons,” they had left their hometown long ago, but now they return to it. Through their eyes, we witness the fate of the Hungarian countryside. Old friends and past relationships that once worked well are now seen in a different light, highlighting the challenges of our generation of thirty-somethings. The film explores the question of what comes next in life when we are no longer children but have yet to become full-fledged adults.

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90 min – Feature

Planned release – 2025

Director – Bernadette Mayer

Writers – Bernadette Mayer, Zoltán Nagy

DOP – Eszter Csepeli

Editor – Gábor Balla

Producer – Genovéva Petrovits, Kristóf Sólyom, Kino Alfa

Co-producer – Zsuzsanna Gyurin, Salamandra Film

– Csaba Oskó-Szabó

Cast – Benett Vilmány, Anikó Für, Andrea Waskovics, István Znamenák, Szabolcs Hajdu

Logline

In the story, I Never See You (working title), art teacher Krisztina gradually loses her eyesight as a complication of diabetes, which leads to a crisis not only in her own but also in her son’s life. Máté is confronted with Krisztina’s condition after the birth of his first child. He tries his best to help his mother, but his life is slowly being torn apart by the increasingly clinging mother and her own family. Meanwhile, Krisztina is afraid of being alone in the dark.

The project won at the Hungarian Film Institute’s Incubator Program
(https://nfi.hu/en/training/incubator-program), which supports young, first-time directors, with a low budget to realize their first feature.

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The short film will be screened in the Off the beaten…screens section.
Off the beaten.. screens is a showcase dedicated to new perspectives and new cinematic forms, from works that are „freer” in their durations and narrative structures, to hybridizations of genres and languages: different and original points of view on cinema and the world. The festival kicks off from January 19 to 27.

Cactusman is a melodrama in three pictures. Tibor has been in love with Alíz since she first took his clothes to the dry cleaners. It was Tuesday, raining. Her wet hair stuck to her forehead. He would rather never wash her clothes again, because they smell like lilacs.

https://triestefilmfestival.it/en/category/fuori-dagli-schermi-eng/

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Fotó kredit: Karolina Kárász

Shooting on Bernadette Mayer’s debut feature film I Never See You (Szemem fénye) (working titles), which is due to wrap on 13 December, has now entered the home straight. The young filmmaker (who has also worked as a director of photography on several short films) has secured Anikó Für (notably well-received in The Inventor [+], Eternal Winter [+] and Coming Out) and Benett Vilmányi (recently at his best in Wandering Leaves, Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period of Time [+] and Guerilla [+], and hitting screens next year in Silent Night) to lead the cast of her work.

They’re joined by Szabolcs Hajdu (crowned Best Actor in Karlovy Vary 2016 by way of It’s Not The Time Of My Life [+], which scooped the Crystal Globe and which he directed himself, and seen in this year’s movies Power [+] and Kalman’s Day [+]), István Znamenák (the winner of the Best Supporting Role trophy in Hungarian Film Week 2018 via The Citizen [+] and very well-received in this year’s Venice Film Festival via Explanation for Everything [+]), Andrea Waskovics (Erasing Frank [+]) and Ildiko Hamori (named Best Actress in Hungarian Film Week 2021, thanks to Pilate).

Written by Bernadette Mayer together with Zoltán Nagy (On the Quiet [+]), the story revolves around Krisztina, an art teacher who is progressively losing her sight as a complication of diabetes. It engenders a crisis, not only in her own life but also in that of her son. Máté must contend with the state of his mother’s health immediately following the birth of his first child. He does his best to help Krisztina, but his life is gradually torn between his increasingly clingy mother and his own little family. Krisztina, meanwhile, fears being alone in the dark…

I Never See You is produced by Genovéva Petrovits (selected as one of 2023’s Emerging Producers – read our interview) on behalf of Kino Alfa, and enjoyed support from the Hungarian National Film Institute’s Incubator Programme. The 25-day film-shoot (which kicked off on 29 August) unfolded in Budapest, with Eszter Csepeli heading up cinematography.

https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/453515

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It is a four-day training programme that is held by Astra Film Festival and consists in a preparatory mentoring workshop, a public pitch and individual meetings with international professionals, for up to 10 documentary projects in various stages of development or production.

Astra Film Doc Tank official selection: https://www.astrafilm.ro/en/doctank-2023-selected-projects

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WIP Europa will screen the selected films to an audience of producers, distributors, sales agents and programmers, among other professionals, who can contribute to their completion and international circulation.

WIP Europa official selection: https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2023/news/1/20839/in

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The list of Industry Days Awards: https://www.sff.ba/novost/12114/21st-cinelink-industry-days-awards

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