the CineFest Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Sándor Kardos

the CineFest Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Sándor Kardos

2024.08.30. 10:00

“God’s finger touched the picture”, says Sándor Kardos. This is true of the classics he has photographed, from Little Valentino (1979) to Eldorado (1988), and it is also true of the photographs of the Horus Archive, the private photography collection he founded, because “the sum of the images represents the one, the whole”. For the first time ever, he made a feature film, The Gravedigger (2010), using a photo-finish camera. He has won the Kossuth and Béla Balázs awards, three times the Film Critics’ Prize, twice the Filmszemle award, and was nominated for the European Film Prize for Eldorado in 1989.

He has photographed more than thirty feature films. As a cinematographer of András Jeles, Géza Bereményi, Béla Tarr, Péter Tímár and Frigyes Gödrös, he photographed such films as Almanac of Fall (1984), Sound Eroticism (1985), The Disciples (1985), Dream Brigade (1985), The Pregnant Papa (1989), Before the Bat’s Flight Is Done (1989), On Tour (1993), Glamour (2000) and Miracle in Krakow (2004).

Sándor Kardos will receive the CineFest Lifetime Achievement Award at the closing gala on Saturday 14 September. The ceremony starts at 17:00 in the Pressburger Hall of the House of Arts.

Advance ticket sales for the 20th CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival are now open at https://jegy.cinefest.hu.

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