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Film director and screenwriter
Country of origin
Hungary

Balázs Szövényi-Lux (*1990) is a film director and screenwriter. He has been making films since childhood. He graduated from Pázmány University and then Edinburgh College of Art. He was a juror at children's film festivals and a former jury member at the BUSHO Festival. He wrote reviews for Kortárs Online magazine for six years. His short film "Katapult" won the best short film award at the Chicago Children's Film Festival. His feature debut, "The First Two", was released last year, which has won numerous awards since , and ended up at HBO. He is looking for the tiny vibrations of the Infinite. He was a volunteer in the Taizé community, and this has determined his relationship with people and religion ever since.

Current issues

Die Preisverleihung in Cannes endete mit einer Überraschung. Paweł Pawlikowski mit „Fatherland“ und Ryusuke Hamaguchi mit „Soudain“ waren die Favoriten, die beim Ranking der Kritiker in Führung lagen, dicht gefolgt von Andrej Svjagincev mit „Minotaur“.
Individualists with distinctive styles: Peter Paul Huth reviews the new films by Valeska Grisebach and Cristian Mungiu.

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16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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