Hungarian director receives prestigious French award – video
Director Ildikó Enyedi on Sunday received the Femme de Cinema Sisley – Les Arcs award at the Les Arcs film festival in France, founded in 2013 to highlight the work of outstanding female filmmakers.
The award ceremony was followed by the screening of Silent Friend, Enyedi’s latest work starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Enzo Brumm and Luna Wedler. “An old, lonely tree is in the centre of the film, living with other plants in a botanical garden thousands of kilometres from their natural habitat so that people can observe and admire them. As people look at them, so do the trees observe people. They are witnesses to our short, disturbed, noisy and hectic lives,” the producers said in a statement.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September where it garnered six awards, including the FIPRESCI prize. Since then, it won the Grand Prize at the 16th International Film Festival of La Roche-sur-Yon and the Silver Spike of the 70th Valladolid International Film Festival. DoP Gergely Palos was awarded the prize for Best Cinematography at the 61st Chicago Film Festival.
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Silent Friend will premiere in Hungary on 29 January.
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