26/04/2010

Two Hungarian features, both European co-productions, will screen at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival (May 12-23, 2010), confirming the vitality of young Hungarian cinema.

With his fourth feature Tender Son - The Frankenstein Project [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (see news), Kornél Mundruczo (35) will return to the Cannes competition after Delta [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kornél Mundruczó
interview: Orsi Tóth
film profile] in 2008. This is the director’s third consecutive film to be included in the Official Selection, for Johanna [+see also:
trailer
film profile] was shown in the Un Certain Regard in 2005.

Produced by Proton Cinema in co-production with Germany’s Essential Filmproduktion, Austria’s KGP Produktion, and Hungarian companies Filmpartners and Laokoon Film, the film is sold internationally by The Coproduction Office.

Discovered in Cannes Critics’ Week 2006 with her debut feature Fresh Air [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Ágnes Kocsis (born in 1971) has this year been selected in the Un Certain Regard section with her second feature: Adrienn Pál [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Agnes Kocsis, director of P…
film profile] (see news). Produced by Ferenc Pusztai (Producer on the Move 2007) for Hungarian company KMH Film, in co-production with France’s Cinéma Defacto, Austria’s Freibeuter Film and Holland’s Isabella Films, the feature is expected to be sold internationally by French company Elle Driver.

(Translated from French)