Hungarian Film Competes for LUX Prize

Delta

The three finalists are part of an official selection of ten films, selected by an independent panel of industry insiders. Eligibility was based on how the films illustrate the universality of European values or the diversity of European culture, or how they bring insight into the debate on the process of building Europe. 

 

Delta is about a quiet young man who returns to the wild, isolated landscape of the Delta, a labyrinth of waterways, small islands and over-grown vegetation, where the villagers are cut off from the outside world.  Here he is introduced to a sister he never knew he had, and they build a relationship that the local villagers have difficulties in accepting.

 

The other two finalists are Le silence de Lorna, by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and Obcan Havel, by Miroslav Janek and Pavel Koutecký. Le silence de Lorna is about Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium who becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio, in order to become owner of a snack bar together with her boy friend. Obcan Havel looks behind the scenes of international politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and also into events in a post-totalitarian country during its transition to democracy. Václav Havel was a key figure in the great changes that took place in central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s - the film material captures his work and influence both in his country and internationally.
 
The three films will be shown in the European Parliament from September 15 until October 17.  MEPs will choose the winner after having seen the films, and the prize will be awarded during a ceremony on October 22. 
 

Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / European Parliament