Benedek Fliegauf
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Benedek Fliegauf is a Hungarian film director
. As founder of the 'Raptors collective', he is also involved in sound design and set design. Living in Budapest he is a leading figure of the new generation of Hungarian filmmakers. Fliegauf is a self made man who never attended film school.
Dark, brooding and slow, Benedek Fliegauf’s second film, Dealer, was recently awarded the Best Director prize in Mar del Plata. "This is a test of endurance for misguided audiences seeking pure entertainment.
Those accustomed to Hollywood and others’ over-stylised view on drugs culture, replete with flashing guns and/or flying punches, will find it like a trip to another planet that you will never want to visit again.
Those with more down-to-earth first knowledge of drug sub-culture will not be shocked by its despondent mood nor its forbidding length and instead appreciate Flieghauf’s remarkable achievement." (Screendaily/Dan Fainaru in Berlin 22 June 2004.)
At spring of 2007 he finish his third feature film, Milk Way. It's kind of "ambient movie". The world premiere was in Locarno Film Festival at 2007.
Fliegauf working on his fourth feature. Womb is a futuristic love story, and it is Fliegauf's English language debut.
Awarded the main prize for experimental short film at the 32nd Hungarian Film Festival
Cottbus: Awarded the Prize for Best Director
Berlinale: Wolfgang Staudte Prize, The Gene Mosskowitz Prize presented by foreign critics
Extreme Film Festival: Extremest film Prize
Berlinale: Berliner Zeitung Prize, Silver Astor and Fipresci prize in Mar del Plata and others
Locarno: Golden Leopard
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
. As founder of the 'Raptors collective', he is also involved in sound design and set design. Living in Budapest he is a leading figure of the new generation of Hungarian filmmakers. Fliegauf is a self made man who never attended film school.
Productions
His first feature, Forest, was a nearly no-budget film. Its international success opened the way to him for bigger productions.Dark, brooding and slow, Benedek Fliegauf’s second film, Dealer, was recently awarded the Best Director prize in Mar del Plata. "This is a test of endurance for misguided audiences seeking pure entertainment.
Those accustomed to Hollywood and others’ over-stylised view on drugs culture, replete with flashing guns and/or flying punches, will find it like a trip to another planet that you will never want to visit again.
Those with more down-to-earth first knowledge of drug sub-culture will not be shocked by its despondent mood nor its forbidding length and instead appreciate Flieghauf’s remarkable achievement." (Screendaily/Dan Fainaru in Berlin 22 June 2004.)
At spring of 2007 he finish his third feature film, Milk Way. It's kind of "ambient movie". The world premiere was in Locarno Film Festival at 2007.
Fliegauf working on his fourth feature. Womb is a futuristic love story, and it is Fliegauf's English language debut.
Filmography
- 1999 Border line – 30’ documentary
- 2000 Talking Heads – 27’ fiction
Awarded the main prize for experimental short film at the 32nd Hungarian Film Festival
- 2001 Is there life before death – 130’ documentary
- 2001 Hypnos – 15’ fiction
Cottbus: Awarded the Prize for Best Director
- 2002 Forest – 90' fiction
Berlinale: Wolfgang Staudte Prize, The Gene Mosskowitz Prize presented by foreign critics
- 2003 The Line – 15’ short
Extreme Film Festival: Extremest film Prize
- 2003 Dealer – 136’ fiction
Berlinale: Berliner Zeitung Prize, Silver Astor and Fipresci prize in Mar del Plata and others
- 2007 Miky Way 80' fiction
Locarno: Golden Leopard
- 2010 WombWomb (film)Womb is a 2010 film written and directed by Benedek Fliegauf and starring Eva Green and Matt Smith.-Plot:The film commences with a pregnant woman telling her unborn child that the father has departed for good, but that together they will start a new life. A love story is then told between two...
— 110' fiction