Frozen River, the debut feature of director Courtney Hunt, received two Academy Award nominations. Iranian directors Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari took the prize for best director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival for their film Women Without Men. Hungarian director Ágnes Kocsis?s film Pál Adrienn received the FIPRESCI award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and The French film The Father of My Children, directed by Mia Hansen-Love, received the Jury Special Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Al Pacino has won an Emmy for his role the HBO special You Don?t Know Jack.
All of the films are Hungarian premieres and some are not expected to go into wide release in the country.
For the first time, the festival will have a CineClassics section to include such film as Hungarian-born director Zoltán Korda?s rarely shown British adventure film from 1939, The Four Feathers. Medardus, an early film by Mihály Kertész and Sándor Korda, never before shown in Hungary, will be screened with live musical accompaniment by Budapest Bár on the festival?s closing night.
List of films in competition:
Kamen KALEV: Eastern Plays
Frédéric SOJCHER: Hitler a Hollywood
Oscar Ruíz NAVIA: El vuelco del cangrejo (Crab Trap)
Mia HANSEN-LOVE: Le pere de mes enfants (Father of My Children)
Zach LeBEAU: The Scientist
Katarzyna ROSLIANEC: Galerianki (Mall Girls)
Bernard BELLEFROID: La régate (The Boat Race)
Shirin NESHAT, Shoja AZARI: Zanan-e bedun-e mardan (Women Without Man)
Diana GROÓ: Vespa
Xavier DOLAN: J'ai tué ma mere (I Killed My Mother)
Ágnes KOCSIS: Pál Adrienn
Lee DANIELS: Precious
Courtney HUNT: Frozen River
Nader T. HOMAYOUN: Tehroun
