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IFF Message to Man > 2025 > International Competition: Short Feature films > The Spectacle

The Spectacle

Information about the film

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Bálint Kenyeres

Operator: Thimios Bakatakis

Screenwriter: Bálint Kenyeres

Cast: Vilmos Jónás, Jolika Józsefné Oláh, Soma Sándor

Producer: Anna Bartók, Zita Kisgergely, Tamás Hutlassa

Producer company : Anabanana

Year: 2025

Country: Hungary-France

Duration: 17 min.

Languages: Hungarian

Description

Russian premiere

A young Roma boy is chosen for a television feature after word spreads of his unusual gift. As expectations rise, his quiet talent faces the harsh glare of media scrutiny. What follows is a quiet unraveling – for him, and for those around him.

About the director:

Bálint Kenyeres
Filmmaker born in 1976 in Budapest. After studying philosophy, film history, and film theory, he graduated as a film director from the Budapest Film and Theatre Academy in 2006. Since then, he has been a member of the European Film Academy. His film Closing Time premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was selected for more than 30 other festivals. His short Before Dawn was in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, won a Jury Prize at Sundance, and received the European Film Academy Prix UIP for Best European Short in 2006. His third short, The History of Aviation, premiered at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2009 and was selected for 50 film festivals. Bálint’s first feature Hier, a European co-production, premiered in Competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018.

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