The multiple award-winning drama "Iska's Journey" by director Csaba Bollok won a Gold Remi at the 41st WorldFest Houston International Film festival in Texas last week. The movie tells the story of 12-year-old Iska living in a coal-mining community in Eastern Europe where her daily work is to collect iron from rubbish heaps to help her family out.
The other production that fetched a Gold Remi in Houston is short film "With a Little Patience" by Laszlo Nemes Jeles. It tell the story of an office clerk meticulously going through her routine and a man waiting for her outside her window.
The feature "The Emigrant" by Istvan Darday and Gyorgyi Szalai, chronicling the life and US exile of renowned 20th century Hungarian author Sandor Marai, received a Special Jury Award at the festival.
The fourth production that won award for best feature at Moscow's DetectiveFEST festival is Krisztina Deak's "Bonnie and Clyde of Miskolc" which transposes the classical story of two casual bank robbers into Hungary.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
