36th Hungarian Film Festival kicks off on 1 February

There will be 11 feature film premiers at the festival, which will host 21 feature films, 42 documentaries and 36 experimental or short films.

The festival will also feature discussion panels, poster exhibitions, book presentations and a film review contest.

Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Lajos Koltai - who shot such acclaimed movies as Giuseppe Tornatore's Maléna and The Legend of 1900 and István Szabó's Sunshine - will present his directorial debut: the adaptation of Nobel prize laureate Imre Kertész's book Fateless.

The director of photography in Fateless was Gyula Pados (34), who won Best Cinematographer award at the 2004 Hungarian Film Festival and was also awarded in Copenhagen and Sitges (Spain).

Academy Award winner István Szabó (Mephisto) will show his latest direction Being Julia, starring Annette Bening, who received a Golden Globe Award for her performance, which also earned her an Oscar nomination. The cinematographer of the movie was Lajos Koltai. Both films will be screened out of contest.

The festival, running in the first week of February, will operate with a gross budget of HUF 150 million, unchanged from last year,

Hungarian film foundation Mozgókép Közalapítvány provided HUF 120 million of the overall budget.

The feature films to be screened at the festival cost an overall HUF 7.2 billion to make, with the foundation financing 26% of their budget, or 39% if Fateless is included.

Source: Portfolio online financial journal



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