Bálint Kenyeres
Biography
Filmmaker born in 1976 in Budapest. After studying philosophy, film history, and film theory, he graduated as a film director from the Budapest Film and Theatre Academy in 2006. Since then, he has been a member of the European Film Academy. His film Closing Time premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was selected for more than 30 other festivals. His short Before Dawn was in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, won a Jury Prize at Sundance, and received the European Film Academy Prix UIP for Best European Short in 2006. His third short, The History of Aviation, premiered at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2009 and was selected for 50 film festivals. Bálint’s first feature Hier, a European co-production, premiered in Competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Every day life for young men and women in Budapest is on display. All "teenage savages" at the time when communism disappeared in Eastern Europe, they now view the world in a sinister way. Examples: A woman becomes irritated with a man who has left his dog. A father has an argument with his wife about an alarming (to the parents) arousal of sexuality in their 10 y.o. daughter. A young girl is distressed by her growing realization that she is more and more like her sadistic grandmother. A conversation between two guys, apparently about an old car, takes an unexpected turn.
Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Péter atya
A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.
Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
aurA is a beautiful girl, a wandering soul, maybe just a ghost. She lives in a strange city, among strange people, perhaps in the same place where we live. The difference between her and others is that she is aware of it: there is no difference! Maybe she is the only one who knows this!