Hungarian short film wins international prizes

According to indielisboa.com, Réka Bucsi, after being nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear three times, wins Short Film Grand Prize in Lisbon. Solar Walk is a 21-minute long animation created by Hungarian director Réka Bucsi and her international production group. The jury in Portugal holds “Solar Walk, by far, the most exciting film in the competition,” and compares Bucsi’s style to Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick. The film comes to Hungarian cinemas by the end of the year.

Indie Lisboa is an international film competition in Lisbon. The Portugal capital hosts the contest annually. This year it was held from April 26 until May 6 and surprised Hungary with several compliments and an award.

You do not speak Hungarian at all? No worries.

The award-winning piece Solar Walk uses the universal language of music and pictures.

Solar Walk is originally a 50-minute long animation without dialogues or narrations, but it was cut because of the requirements of the competition. The animation is – originally – created for the Danish Aarchus Jazz Orchestra, and thus was entirely made in and financed by Denmark.

The Hungarian director relied mainly on the production group of her previous movie, Love. The group has Americans in it, as every successful movie; Danish members, for the reasons mentioned above; and French members, as every art movie; and, obviously, a Hungarian sound designer, Péter Benjámin Lukács. Sounds like a recipe for success.

Solar Walk gives a space-travelling experience for its viewers, weird human-like animals and geometrical shapes – moreover, a Rubik’s cube! – form scenes.