Lull and Team Building in HungariCom line-up
A few days after their world premieres at Hungarian Film Week (February 2-8, in Budapest), Tamás Sas’ Lull and Reka Szabo’s Team Building will be presented by HungariCom at the European Film Market at the Berlinale (February 11-21).
Starring Adél Kováts, Patrícia Kovács and Anna Pálmai, Lull, by Sas (S.O.S. Love! [+see also:
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Scripted by Judit Csikesz, the film follows three women – two sisters and their friend and future mother-in-law – on an autumn boat outing on Lake Balaton. This idyllic cruise (fine weather, swimming, champagne) turns into a game revealing secrets, lies and resentments, before descending into tragedy.
Team Building is Szabo’s debut feature. Produced by Ferenc Pusztai (Producer on the Move 2007) for KMH Film in co-production with Germany’s 27 Films Production and Superkrush Films, the film stars Zsolt Nagy, Péter Nagy, Andrea Fullajtár, Alexis Latham and Iván Kamarás.
Written by the director, Team Building is a parable on the changes in Hungary in its movement towards freedom, through the misadventures of a cameraman who is filming a management seminar on the theme of team building, led by a British coach. Methods involving cruelty and humiliation will lead to an unexpected turn of events when the film is screened at the end-of-training party.
HungariCom will also present Denes Orosz’s Poligamy [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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