“Wild Roots”, “My Wife’s Story” won the Hungarian Film Awards

wild rootsThe director’s first feature film by Hungarian director Hajni Kis won the Main Hungarian Film Award, the Hungarian Film Award for Best Film.

A family drama starring non-professional actors, which tells the story of a 12-year-old girl (Zorka Horvat) in search of a father, a violent ex-villain (played by former martial arts champion Gustav Dietz) also won the award. . At the Best Screenplay and Best First Art Awards Ceremony held on Sunday night at the Veszprém Petof Theater in western Hungary.

wild roots It premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival last year and also screened at the Tallinn and Santa Barbara festivals.

Veteran Hungarian film director Ildiko Eniedi receives the award for Best Director my wife’s story, a literary adaptation starring Lea Seidou, Louis Garrel and Dutch newcomer Gij Naber. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year, won four more Hungarian film awards in technical categories, including Best Cinematography, Makeup, Costume Design and Editing.

Other winners were Gabriela Hamor, who received the Best Actress award for her role in the drama Nandor Lorinch and Balint Nagy. that I know, which investigates a couple’s response to the rape of a wife. The best leading actor was Janos Kulka for the film by Peter Phasakas. ᲗIn gameA thriller set in the Budapest secret police in the 1960s.

Award for Best Television Series Shakespeare / 37 – Montague and CapuletDirected by László Magács and produced by Tamás Csutak, it is part of an avant-garde project to reinterpret all of Shakespeare’s dramas.

The awards ceremony was the closing ceremony of the Hungarian Film Festival, a week-long celebration of Hungarian cinema that took place from June 9 to 12 in the beautiful lakeside towns of Veszprém, Balatonfured and Balatonalmad.