Record haul at Sarajevo film fest
Young Hungarian movie makers collected an unprecedented five awards at the fifteen-year-old Sarajevo film festival Saturday evening, the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation reported on Sunday.
Kornél Mundruczó's Gentle Creature - The Frankenstein Scheme won a special prize after premiering at Cannes in May.
Szabolcs Hajdu's Bibliotheque Pascal won the International Federation of Art Cinemas award as well as the Cineuropa prize, which is awarded by the Paneuropean website.
A film treatment by Árpád Bogdán entitled The Necromancer and Bálint Kenyeres's Yesterday also won prizes.
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