20/09/2010

The 7th International Film Festival in Miskolc (third largest Hungarian city, located in the north of the country), an event of reference in Central Europe, closed yesterday with the triumph of Shirin Neshat’s Austrian/German/French co-production Women Without Men [+see also:
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The Jury (presided by Swedish producer Katinka Farago) awarded its Special Grand Prize to French director Mia Hansen-Love for Father of My Children [+see also:
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interview: Mia Hansen-Løve
film profile].

Critics honoured Hungarian director Agnes Kocsis’s Adrienn Pal [+see also:
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interview: Agnes Kocsis, director of P…
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Other films presented in competition include Eastern Plays [+see also:
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interview: Kamen Kalev
film profile] by Bulgaria’s Kamen Kalev (European Parliament LUX Prize 2009 competition), Hitler In Hollywood [+see also:
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film profile] by Belgium’s Frédéric Sojcher, The Boat Race [+see also:
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interview: Bernard Bellefroid, directo…
film profile] by fellow Belgian Bernard Bellefroid, Mall Girls [+see also:
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film profile] by Polish director Katarzyna Roslianec and Vespa by Hungary’s Diana Groo.

Finally, the Miskolc festival this year gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Miklós Jancsó.

(Translated from French)