29/03/2010

Three Hungarian directors are well-placed among the contenders for selection at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival (May 12-23, 2010).

According to our information, young filmmaker Ágnes Kocsis already has a place in the Directors’ Fortnight or the Un Certain Regard section with her second feature: Adrienn Pál [+see also:
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Having appeared on the Croisette with his latest two films (Johanna [+see also:
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interview: Kornél Mundruczó
interview: Orsi Tóth
film profile] in competition in 2008), Kornél Mundruczo also has a good chance of making it into the official selection with his fourth feature: The Frankenstein Project [+see also:
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Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse [+see also:
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Co-produced by Hungary (T.T.Filmmuhely), Switzerland (Vega Film Production), Germany (Zero Fiction Film) and France (Movie Partners In Motion Film), The Turin Horse thus has every chance of a première on the Croisette, where Tarr was selected in competition in 2007 with his previous work The Man from London [+see also:
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(Translated from French)