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Agnes Kocsis shooting Eden

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- Croatia’s Lana Baric and Belgium’s Daan Stuyven topline the film, which is being produced by Mythberg Films and sold by the Hungarian Film Fund

Agnes Kocsis shooting Eden
l-r: Actress Lana Baric, DoP Maté Tóth Widamon, director Agnes Kocsis and actor Daan Stuyven

Last Monday saw the start of the shoot for Eden [+see also:
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, the eagerly awaited third feature film by talented Hungarian filmmaker Agnes Kocsis, who rose to fame with Fresh Air [+see also:
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(in competition in the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2006 and nominated for the European Film Award for European Discovery the same year) and who also made a huge splash on the Croisette with Adrienn Pál [+see also:
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(FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard selection in 2010).

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For the cast of her new opus, the director has secured the services of Croatia’s Lana Baric (who gave a fine performance in 2015’s You Carry Me [+see also:
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, won Best Supporting Actress at Pula in 2013 for Hush [+see also:
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interview: Tihana Lazovic
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, and was also superb in The Reaper [+see also:
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and Night Boats [+see also:
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), Belgium’s Daan Stuyven (best known as a musician and singer, be it in a group or as a solo artist, under the name Daan; also a composer for film; he has made the odd appearance on the big screen to boot, most notably in How Camels Become Lions), Romania’s Lóránt Bocskor-Salló (Children of Glory [+see also:
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) and Hungary’s Maya Roberti.

Written by the director, who wishes to reveal as few plot details as possible, Eden is a special love story. It is about a woman in her late thirties who is allergic to everything; therefore, she lives in total isolation.

Produced by József Berger for Mythberg Films, Eden is being co-produced by Oana Giurgiu for Romanian outfit Libra Film, with the involvement of Alain Berliner for Belgian firm WFE. The feature, which is being backed by the Hungarian Film Fund, the Hungarian tax incentive scheme and the MEDIA Programme’s development support, is being filmed until late February, with five additional days scheduled for May. Principal photography is taking place in Mafilm Studios, in Budapest and at various locations in the Hungarian countryside. The DoP is Máté Tóth Widamon (who was awarded at the Hungarian Film Week in 2009 for his work on Pater Sparrow’s 1 and who turned heads in 2014 thanks to his efforts on What Ever Happened to Timi).

Eden will be distributed in Hungarian theatres by Mozinet in 2019 and will be sold overseas by the Hungarian Film Fund.

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(Translated from French)

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