Lifetime Achievement Awards of the 17th Cinefest
Born in Algiers, Tony Gatlif has always been led by freedom, love of justice and unbridled spirit. His passionate works talk about great journeys, finding your roots and the beauty of a well-lived life, including Exils that has brought Gatlif the Best Director Award in Cannes in 2004 and is screened at the CineFest in 2021. The wonderful pictures and melodies of Gadjo Dilo, Transylvania, Liberté, Geronimo, Latcho Drom or Tom Medina screened in Cannes this year are unforgettable. Gatlif travels from India through Egypt, Turkey, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary to Spain showing us the life of the Romani. In 2021 Tony Gatlif receives the Lifetime Achievement Award of the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival at the opening ceremony.
The CineFest pays tribute to Marcell Jankovics with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Ward this year. Marcell Jankovics is one of the most outstanding figures of the Hungarian cinematography. One of his early works, Sisyphus was nominated for Academy Award in 1976, The Struggle was awarded Palme d’Or in 1977 in Cannes. He directed the first Hungarian feature-length animation, Johnny Corncob. Hundreds of thousands have grown and are growing up watching Hungarian folktales. His folktales, like Son of the White Mare or Song of the Miraculous Hind, follow the noblest traditions of disseminating knowledge and storytelling. Marcell Jankovics’ visual world is instantly recognizable. The inspirational force behind the former student of Pannonhalma was his inexhaustible imagination, the secret of a sure sense of form, of creative power. Deep Water, The Struggle and Sisyphus, three black and white animations, are few-minutes masterpieces that are similar in their myth-evoking, bare visuals.
The CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival tribute to Daniel Oblbrychski with the Ambassador of European Cinema Award. “As a kid I dreamt of becoming an Olympic champion…I was fencing, riding, but enjoyed playing the violin and dancing as well. And if someone wants to do everything, what else could he be than an actor?” said one of the most well-known figures of Polish cinema once. Since 1965 he has been playing major roles, mainly in Polish and European films, but millions have also seen him with Angelina Jolie in “Salt”. The emblematic actor of Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda has played a number of memorable figures in films like “Ashes” , “Everything for Sale”, “Landscape After the Battle”, “The Birch Wood”, “The Wedding” and “Pan Tadeusz”. Olbrychski has appeared in several films directed by Miklós Jancsó, and he also stared in Oscar and Palme d’Or winner “The Tin Drum”. He worked with legendary actresses, like Fanny Ardant, Hanna Schygulla, Jeanne Moreau or Julia Ormond. One of the highlights of his career is the 1976 Oscar-winning epic “The Promised Land” by Andrzej Wajda, which will be screened at the CineFest.
The members of the jury of the feature film competition program at the 17th CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival are: Tamás Kollarik, PhD; Tamás Gergely Kucsera, PhD; Dénes Nagy and Tomáš Pavlíček. The head of the jury is Tony Gatlif.
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