10/05/2016 - A slew of Hungarian features currently in post-production are about to hit the Croisette, and the new projects by Kornél Mundruczo and Janos Szasz are also on the menu

Having been deprived of any modern feature film being screened in the various selections of the Cannes Film Festival this year (the 69th edition of which unspools from 11-22 May 2016), Hungarian cinema will nevertheless be represented on the line-up by director László Nemes, who is part of the official competition jury, the restored version of Love by Károly Makk on the Cannes Classics programme, and two short films: The Noise of Licking (A nyalintás nesze) by Nadja Andrasev (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design), which is one of the 18 student films in the Cinéfondation selection, and the animated title Superbia by Luca Tóth, which is in competition in the Critics’ Week.

Some glamorous projects will be shown off at the Film Market, particularly with the start of pre-sales for Superfluous Man [+see also:
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Another project by a renowned Hungarian director will be present at the Film Market, with Cross My Wind by Janos Szasz (of The Notebook [+see also:
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Hungarian cinema will also be represented at the Film Market by the international sales division of the Hungarian National Film Fund, which has a slate including Kills on Wheels [+see also:
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film profile] by Márta Mészáros (read the article), 1945 by Ferenc Török (read the article), The Citizen [+see also:
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film profile] by Roland Vranik (read the news), Brazilians [+see also:
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film profile] by duo Csaba M Kiss and Gábor Rohonyi (read the article), Coyote [+see also:
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film profile] by Márk Kostyál (read the article), On Body and Soul [+see also:
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interview: Ildiko Enyedi
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interview: Réka Tenki
film profile] by Ildikó Enyedi (read the article), The Invincible by Gábor Herendi, The Perfect Killer by József Pacskovszky (read the article), Just Drop Dead [+see also:
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film profile] by Zoltán Kamondi, Troupers by Pál Sándor, Strangled [+see also:
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film profile] by Attila Gigor (read the article).

(Translated from French)