The 38 participants at the festival -- the longest-running short film competition in Northern Europe -- were selected from among 2,600 applications from 70 countries around the world.
Since its premiere in Cannes, Kenyeres's film has received invitations to more than 50 festivals, earning prestigious awards in St. Petersburg, Sarajevo, Leeds, Cottbus, Madrid, Bucharest, Prague, Trieste, Angers and, most recently, the Sundance Film Festival. ?Before Dawn? director of photography Mátyás Erdély has also received top awards at the Hungarian Film Festival as well as the Belo Horizonte and Bucharest film festivals.
The UIP award is the 16th international prize received by ?Before Dawn?, a single-cut masterpiece. The award is all the more valuable because it means automatic nomination for the European Film Academy 2006 short film prize. UIP and the European Film Academy have been selecting the best short film of the year from among the winners of 14 European film festivals for the sixth year now.
Kenyeres is currently preparing to shoot his first full-length film, which will be a European co-production.
The prestigious UIP award went to Ferenc Cakó's animated film Date in Valladolid last year. Earlier, Lívia Gyarmathy's Our Stork scored the UIP award and was then chosen the best European short film of the year in 2000.
Source: www.port.hu
