Two Hungarian films take main prizes at the Cinequest Film Festival

The prizes for best drama and best comedy were both taken by Hungarian productions on the closing night of the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, hvg.hu reports. The winners were selected from among 132 films from 50 countries.

Roland Vranik’s film, The Citizen was awarded the prize for Best Narrative Feature Film in drama category. The film is a poignant love story which features amateur actors and uses minimalist techniques and humour to portray what it’s like to be an immigrant in Hungary.

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Roland Vranik’s film has recently won the prize for best script in the Directors’ Week programme at the Fantasporto Film Festival in Portugal. The film was made with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund, and the script was written by director Roland Vranik and Iván Szabó, who is known for Vespa and Land of Storms.