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and Cinéma du Parc presents
the
"New Generation"
Hungarian Film Week
Date TBD @ the Cinema du Parc
The
"New Generation" Hungarian
Film Week will present seven feature
films from Hungary, and a host of
short films by the new generation
of Hungarian directors who have made
waves at international festivals since
the systemic changes.
Montreal cinephiles will be familiar
with the generation of notable Hungarian
film directors that includes the likes
of the Oscar-winning director Istvan
Szabo, the legendary director and
screenwriter Bela Tarr, or the colorful
Miklos Jancso. This Hungarian Film
Week, however, will be an opportunity
to see the works of the young generation
of Hungarian directors that have been
winning prizes at film festivals around
the world in recent years.
The
films considered for screening include:
>
Moszkva
ter (2001):
An iconic
film depicting the era of the systemic
changes in Hungary. This film by
Ferenc Torok, depicts Petya and
his friends who are seemingly oblivious
to the changes going on around them.
About to graduate from high school,
friends, parties, girls and making
cash is on their minds.
>
Feher Tenyer
(2006):
The
traditions in East and West for
training gymnasts have been long
known but perhaps never more starkly
portrayed than in White Palms. Based
on autobiographical elements involving
his brother Szabolcs Hajdu, brings
us a tale of a gold medal standard
gymnast.
>
Szabadsag,
szerelem (2006):
A film
by Kriszta Goda that commemorates
Hungary's 1956 revolution. Set in
Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic
Games of that year. While Soviet
tanks were destroying Hungary, the
Hungarian water-polo team was winning
over the Soviets in the Olympic
pool.
>
Iszka Utazasa
(2007):
Csaba
Bollok's film that follows the plight
of a young girl as she is passed
from pillar to post in her fight
for survival. Born into extreme
poverty, Iska is soon sent out to
earn which she does scrabbling over
rubbish dumps, searching for scrap
metal.
>
Szep
Napok (2002):
Directed by
Kornel Mundruczo, Pleasant Days
follows the lives of siblings Peter
and Maria, a beautiful young woman
whose lover neglects her. Maria
works in a laundromat, often finding
herself preoccupied with the problems
of Maja, her best friend who gives
birth on the laundromat's floor.
>
Kontroll
(2003):
Antal Nimrod's
look ghost trains and ghostly characters
are what run through the perpetual
night of this fictitious underground
system. Bulcsú's life that
once was where the real people go
home after work, are replaced by
the dark, cold and solitude arena
of his new dwellings.
Before
each feature film, we will also feature
award-winning short films produced by
young Hungarian directors.
The selection of films has been Simultaneous
and presented at the same venue, the
Hungarian Film Week will show a selection
of works of the Canadian
Hungarian Artists Collective.
This organization regroups some of the
most outstanding achievers of Hungarian-Canadian
artists in Canada.
The Hungarian Film Week is curated by
ontheglobe.com editor Andrew
Princz and Hungarian film
director Nora
Lakos in collaboration with
the director of the Cinema du Parc,
Roland Smith. The event is put together
with the collaboration and support of
Hungarian-Canadian businessman Peter
Czinkan.
Budapest-based director Nora
Lakos is scheduled to travel
to Montreal for the film week and will
make a short presentation on the the
young generation of Hungarian film-makers,
and the status of film-making in Hungary.
On behalf of the Canada-Hungary Education
Foundation, the launch of the Hungarian
Film Week will also act as a launch-pad
for Hungarian
Presence, a multi-fasceted
website that regroups the mosaic of
Hungarian-Canadian life from litterature,
to politics, music to the visual arts.
The Hungarian Film Week organizers would
like to thank the sponsors of this event,
without whom bringing these important
films to Montreal audiences would not
be possible:
Mr. Alex Moosz
Canada-Hungary Education Foundation
Hungarian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Event
venue:
Cinema Du Parc
3575, Park Ave.
Tel: [514] 281.1900
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