Minister of Education and Culture István Hiller is slated to open Film Week. An awards ceremony and a screening of director Pál Sándor's film Noah's Ark are to follow.
The Master of Hungarian Motion Pictures prize will go to the directors István Szabó and János Herskó this year. The prize is granted each year by the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation on the basis of a joint proposal by the Hungarian Association of Film Professionals, the Hungarian Directors Guild and the Hungarian Cinematographers' Association.
The Life Achievement award will go to the actress Erzsi Máthé, the screenplay writer Balázs Fakan and the documentary director Tamás Czigány.
Films on the festival programme will be shown at House of Future, the Palace Mammut Cinema and the Uránia Cinema. Seventeen feature films, 39 documentaries, 30 experimental and short films and 9 nature and educational films are in the competition.
The film week's competition programme will start with screenings of the documentary films, to be followed by experimental and short films. It will conclude with screenings of the feature films.
The event's organisers will present two main prizes in the feature film category this year: one to the best auteur film and one to the best film in its genre.
The jury for feature films will be chaired by German film historian Ulrich Gregor, the documentary jury will be chaired by writer and painter Gábor Karátson, the jury of experimental and short films will be chaired by director Péter Tímár, and the nature and educational films jury will be chaired by the film academic András Réz.
The programme will also include many films outside of the competition. Among them are two Fábri films: Sweet Anna and Professor Hannibal. A Fábri retrospective will open at the Hungarian National Gallery.
The Millenáris Teátrum will be host an exhibition of Hungarian film posters timed to coincide with Film Week.
