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BERLINALE 2014 Market

Strong comeback for Hungarian cinema at the EFM

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- Four market premieres; 15 post-production titles in pre-sales, including those by Mundruczó and Hajdu; and two projects in the Co-production Market

Strong comeback for Hungarian cinema at the EFM
A Land of Storms by Ádám Császi

After a long spell in the wilderness, Hungarian cinema production has found its stride again, and 2014 will see a huge wave of Magyar titles arriving in theatres and/or festivals. There is a clear revival going on at the 64th Berlinale, which kicks off today with A Land of Storms [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Adam Csaszi
film profile
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by Ádám Császi at the Panorama (read the article) and a solid contingent of features in the European Film Market.

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Four feature films in the line-up of the Hungarian National Film Fund Sales will be having their market premieres: Heavenly Shift [+see also:
trailer
film profile
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by Mark Bodzsar (read the article), Coming Out by Denes Orosz (the number-one Hungarian film at the country’s box office in 2013 – see news), Liza, the Fox-Fairy [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Karoly Ujj Mészáros
film profile
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by Károly Ujj Mészáros (read the article) and the fantasy film Aura by Zsolt Bernáth.

Among the pre-sales are White God by Kornél Mundruczó (read the article) and Mirage by Szabolcs Hajdu (read the article), the new titles by two filmmakers who are popular at the big festivals.

Also highly anticipated are Weekend by Aron Mátyássy (read the article), Swing by Csaba Fazekas (read the article) and Zero by Gyula Nemes (article).

Three début feature films will also be on the line-up this year: Afterlife by Virag Zomborácz (read the article and see the making of), Whatever Happened to Timi by Attila Herczeg and The Wednesday Child by Lili Horvát.

This tidal wave of Hungarian titles in post-production also includes Paw by Robert Adrian Pejo (read the article), No Man's Island by Ferenc Török, Car Park by Bence Miklauzic (read the article), the comedy Argo 2 [+see also:
trailer
film profile
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by Attila Árpa and the experimental docu-fiction Picturesque Epochs by Péter Forgács.

Lastly, two Hungarian projects are among the 39 selected for the 11th Berlinale Co-Production Market: House of Isaura by Bence Fliegauf (with a storyline that recounts the misfortunes of an “alien” who lands in the countryside) and Ginko by Mónika Mécs and Gábor Rohonyi (which is about an Irishman who runs over two children in Hungary; their father then tries to get the hit-and-run driver put in prison, against a backdrop of a media frenzy and a diplomatic crisis that develops between the two countries).

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(Translated from French)

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