Bálint Kenyeres

Son of Saul

László Nemes

Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

Hajnal előtt

Bálint Kenyeres

Sándor Badár, János Kalmár

Before Dawn has a single shot which is several minutes in length. Technically this is immaculate, visually it is stunning. The story is set in a field; where the field is we don't know, but a lone truck drives up into the field and stops. A horn beeps and from beneath the long grass thirty of so people appear and proceed to enter the truck. We take it they hiding from something and this is their doorway. The truck leaves, but only to be greeted by a mass of police and even a helicopter blocking their path.

Zárás

Bálint Kenyeres

András Szőke

This “Béla Tarr-esque” short presents a small pub right before closing time. The story is about a chess game which turns bad after the final move.

A repülés története

Bálint Kenyeres

Marie Mure, Júlia Nyakó

Normandy, 1905. The picnic is finished. A group of middle-class people in their Sunday best, get ready to go home. There is one last photo to be taken, but somebody is missing

Rengeteg

Benedek Fliegauf

Rita Braun, Barbara Csonka

Every day life for young men and women in Budapest is on display. All "teenage savages" at the time when communism disappeared in Eastern Europe, they now view the world in a sinister way. Examples: A woman becomes irritated with a man who has left his dog. A father has an argument with his wife about an alarming (to the parents) arousal of sexuality in their 10 y.o. daughter. A young girl is distressed by her growing realization that she is more and more like her sadistic grandmother. A conversation between two guys, apparently about an old car, takes an unexpected turn.

Hier

Bálint Kenyeres

Vlad Ivanov, Gamil Ratib

50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.

Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)

Ridley Scott, Jan Švankmajer

A collection of short films by 16 European directors.