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Wild Roots, the debut feature from Hungarian director Hajni Kis, has won Hungary’s top cinema honor, the Hungarian Motion Picture Award for best film.
The low-key family drama featuring nonprofessional actors, which follows a 12-year-old girl (Zorka Horváth) who seeks out her father, a violent ex-con (played by former martial-arts champion Gusztáv Dietz), also won the best screenplay and the best first feature awards at the ceremony held Sunday night at the Veszprém Petofi Theatre in western Hungary.
Wild Roots premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival last year and also screened at the Tallinn and Santa Barbara festivals.
Veteran Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi won best director honors for The Story of My Wife, a literary adaptation starring Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel and Dutch newcomer Gijs Naber. The film, which premiered in Cannes competition last year, took home four other Hungarian Motion Picture honors in technical categories,...
Wild Roots, the debut feature from Hungarian director Hajni Kis, has won Hungary’s top cinema honor, the Hungarian Motion Picture Award for best film.
The low-key family drama featuring nonprofessional actors, which follows a 12-year-old girl (Zorka Horváth) who seeks out her father, a violent ex-con (played by former martial-arts champion Gusztáv Dietz), also won the best screenplay and the best first feature awards at the ceremony held Sunday night at the Veszprém Petofi Theatre in western Hungary.
Wild Roots premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival last year and also screened at the Tallinn and Santa Barbara festivals.
Veteran Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi won best director honors for The Story of My Wife, a literary adaptation starring Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel and Dutch newcomer Gijs Naber. The film, which premiered in Cannes competition last year, took home four other Hungarian Motion Picture honors in technical categories,...
- 6/13/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin-based sales agency M-Appeal has picked up Hungarian drama “Wild Roots,” which will world premiere at an A-grade film festival later this year, and will have a market screening at the Pre-Cannes Screenings next week.
“Wild Roots,” a drama about a lonely, ex-con bouncer who is reunited with his wild child daughter, won the Works-in-Progress Award at Eastern Promises, Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s industry section. The film is the feature debut of director-writer Hajni Kis, whose “Beautiful Figure” was nominated for the Student Academy Awards in 2016.
The film, written by Fanni Szántó and Kis, centers on 12-year-old Niki, who finds out that her father, Tibor, is in town after being released from prison. She disobeys her grandmother’s fierce objections and meets him in secret. Tibor is forced to confront his role as a father and finally take responsibility. After seven years without contact, the father and daughter get to know each other,...
“Wild Roots,” a drama about a lonely, ex-con bouncer who is reunited with his wild child daughter, won the Works-in-Progress Award at Eastern Promises, Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s industry section. The film is the feature debut of director-writer Hajni Kis, whose “Beautiful Figure” was nominated for the Student Academy Awards in 2016.
The film, written by Fanni Szántó and Kis, centers on 12-year-old Niki, who finds out that her father, Tibor, is in town after being released from prison. She disobeys her grandmother’s fierce objections and meets him in secret. Tibor is forced to confront his role as a father and finally take responsibility. After seven years without contact, the father and daughter get to know each other,...
- 6/17/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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