Director: Bálint Kenyeres
Hu/2005/13mins/35mm/color
Before dawn, the wheat gently undulates on
the hillside.
Before dawn, people will rise and others
will take away their hope.
Bálint Kenyeres was born in 1976 in Budapest. After
studying philosophy, history and film theory, he
graduated as a film director at the Budapest Film
and Theatre Academy in 2006. BEFORE DAWN was selected for 100 Film
Festivals and won 40 awards including the
European Film Academy's best short film in 2006.
"For a film like this first you have to find
the right location and the right faces,
actors, characters and then you can
develop your original idea and come
up with more details. So I knew that my
most important job was to find a right
location for the film. I knew that I wanted
a kind of closed valley and I knew that
I wanted to use every angle possible.
Actually I have been to every part of
Hungary and I have seen every single
meadow in the country."
Balint Kenyeres on Before Dawn
Commentary by Bálint Kenyeres, recorded in
Budapest, Hungary.
Courtesy of PROFIL-M 94
