– The Hungarian institution will support first feature films by Kristóf Orzói, Pici Pápai, Gábor Varga Péter Karácsony and Bence Sipos
Director Kristóf Orzói, selected with We Will Live for a Thousand Years and We Will Be Very Sad at the End
Initiated in 2015, the Hungarian National Film Fund’s Incubator programme has selected five new feature film projects to receive production support, amounting to a maximum of 329,000 euros for fiction titles and 97,000 euros for documentaries.
Standing tall among the chosen few is We Will Live for a Thousand Years and We Will Be Very Sad at the End by Kristóf Orzói, which is a film about addiction, loneliness and absent fathers. Produced by Milk & Honey Productions, the film will follow 54-year-old Gabó, who was once was an ambitious journalist but who, for decades, has been inhabiting the maze of streets and pubs of downtown Budapest. One day, his 18-year-old son, who lives in the countryside, asks if he can live with him…
Likewise selected is Temama by Pici Pápai, a project steered by Inforg M&M and revolving around Flora who is forced to choose between her family and saving a little boy with a complicated past.
Gábor Varga was also singled out, thanks to Firedamp (working title), a Forcodes production which homes in on miner Gyula, who’s thought to be dead having disappeared at work at the end of the 1980s. The people of the town have since been celebrating his memory as a tragic hero, but when a Chinese mine explodes, Gyula emerges from the rubble unharmed, having not aged a single day. Upon returning to his hometown, his old friends, his 100-year-old mother and his former love seem to welcome him solemnly, but it’s not easy for Gyula to fit in and adapt to the idealised image that they’ve formed of him. The small town slowly begins to question Gyula’s identity…
The Incubator pitching jury also found themselves won over by Péter Karácsony’s The Last Train Robbery (working title), a Megafilm production which takes us back to the 1860s to follow in the wake of Paula, who embarks upon an adventure where she not only finds herself facing danger, but also contending with her fears and social oppression. Inspired by real events, this grotesque, dark comedy follows our protagonist as she discovers her inner strength and independence through events associated with a mysterious train robbery.
Last but not least, the Audience Award was won by Bence Sipos’ It Was Still There Yesterday (working title), a dramatic comedy and road movie produced by Éva Török. The story sees 34-year-old former musician, Bálint, learning that his father whom he lost contact with a long time ago is now mute. Bálint wants to help his father, and he’s joined in this by his girlfriend Lilla and his Finnish student friend Valtteri, who comes to visit them in his rally car. Together, they set off on a great adventure to find a cure for Balint’s father’s illness…
(Translated from French)
This post was originally published on here
