Miskolc International Film Festival Awards
On Saturday, the 17th of September, Miskolc International Film Festival closed, the prizes and awards of the festival has been given to the winners. After the closing ceremony the screening of Paul Verhoven’s Elle closed the Jameson CineFest, Hungary's leading film event.
The Main Prize of the festival, the Emeric Pressburger Prize was given to Matthew NEWTON’s From Nowhere, while the Grand Pix, the Adolf Zukor Prize went to the Danish Martin ZANDVLIET for his film Land of Mine. Szabolcs Hajdu received the Audience Award for his newest film, It’s Not the Time of My Life, while the Lifetime Achievement Award went to the legendary Hungarian helmer Károly Makk.
At the the Miskolc International Film Festival Hungarian and Central European premieres and exciting professional programs were offered, several well-known Hungarian and international filmmaker accompanied their films to the festival. The first day of the event was of great interest: at the opening ceremony Juliette Binoche was awarded with the newly founded Europe Award. The CineClassics screening of Kieslowski's Trois couleus trilogy was a huge success. The unwinking attention of the professionals and the love of the audience accompanied the whole event.
Szabolcs Hajdu’s new film, It’s Not the Time of My Life, was an especially great success. The director emphasized that, even though the film shot in their own apartment seems to be a true story, it is a piece of fiction bringing up problems and situations coming from his and his friends’ lives. The It’s Not the Time of My Life got the greatest round of applause ever and ended up with getting the Audience Award.
