Nicole Cipolia's first feature film, Tomorrow I Die, won the Special Prize of the 40th Warsaw International Film Festival. According to the distributor's press release, the Hungarian independent horror film has entered the first and second feature film competition. The announcement confirms that the film was produced without direct support from the state.
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According to the release, the mystery horror film starring Vani Frocna and Elma Harsheji revolves around the plight of a pregnant woman who feels that she is going to die the next day. Incidentally, Cepolia won the Hungarian Film Critics Award this year for his short film Mária Terézia búl, and was also the screenwriter of Holnap's megholok.
This is not the first time in recent years that a Hungarian film has received an award at a high-level international film festival without receiving a single forint of state support. Since Chaba Kyle became government film commissioner, the government has spent state film subsidies almost exclusively on political and historical films of terrible quality, while slowly bleeding out independent auteurs and directors.
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What these works have in common is that, without exception, they were produced without any state support, often in foreign co-productions and with their own money, while the Hungarian government spent billions on NER cycle films that were never recognized internationally. .
We recently covered the increasingly difficult situation of independent Hungarian filmmakers in detail on Telex, and Gábor Riesz, Pastor Marcel, who exploded with ecstasy, and Matthias Erdélyi and Palin Semler, who worked on Vaskarom, touched on the topic in various programs of After. .
I Will Die Tomorrow will be shown in Hungarian cinemas from November 7, and will also appear in the competition program of a Spanish film festival.
