Hukkle
(Hukkle)

feature, 35mm, 75 minutes

First feature

PREMIER (HUNGARY): 2002.

An old man sitting on a bench has the hiccups, a drunken youth snores on a carriage, a kind old lady picks lilies of the valley, women sew in the dressmaker� shop, men are bowling in a pub, the bees make honey, a machine harvests the wheat that in the mill will be made into flour, and then into dumplings in Grandma� kitchen �and thoughout it all a policeman investigates a murder... A film with the deceptive appearance of a documentary, where each scene contains clues to a detective story.
This popular festival film has accumulated a number of trophies along the way, starting in its home country at the Hungarian Film Week where it picked up the Critics Award and Best Debut Film. Since then, the film took home four prizes at Cottbus including the Special Prize, Audience Award and the FIPRESCI Critics Prize, a Special Mention at San Sebastian and the European Film Awards European Discovery of the Year nod.

Creators

György Pálfi Director
György Pálfi Screenplay
Gergely Pohárnok Director of photography
Gábor Marinkás Editor
Samu Gryllus, Balázs Barna Music
Tamás Zányi Sound
Csaba Bereczki, András Böhm Producer
Mokép Production company
Józsefné Rácz, Ferenc Bandi, Jánosné Nagy, Ági Margitai, Attila Kaszás, Ferenc Nagy, Eszter Ónodi, József Farkas Cast

Awards

Santa Fe Film Festival - 2002 Main Prize (Milagro Award for Best Feature)
Vitoria Film Festival - 2004 Special Mention
Cottbus FilmFestival - 2002 Special Prize ot the Jury,Prize of the Student Jury,Audience Prize,FIPRESCI's Special Prize
European Film Academy - 2002 European Discovery 2002 - Fassbinder Award
Budapest Hungarian Film Week - 2002 Best First Film, Gene Moskowitz Prize
Barcelona l’Alternativa - 2003 Feature Film Prize
Mamers International Film Festival - 2003 Main Prize, Prize of the Art Cinemas
Galway Film Fleadh - 2003 Third Prize
San Sebastian International Film Festival - 2002 New Directors Award (Special Prize for the Best First Film)
Kiev MOLODIST International Film Festival - 2002 Diploma of the Jury
Hong Kong International Film Festival - 2003 Golden Firebird Award for Young Cinema
Torún TOFIFEST - 2003 Main Prize
Sochi International Film Festival - 2003 Golden Rose (Main Prize)
Riga International Film Festival - 2004 Ecumenical Jury's Prize
Houston Worldfest - 2003 Special Prize of the Jury
Cleveland International Film Festival - 2003 Central and Eastern European Competition Award

Festivals

Seattle International Film Festival - 2003
New York New Directors/New Films Festival - 2003
Brasilia FICBrasília - 2003
Portland International Film Festival - 2003
Cluj-Napoca Transilvania - 2003
Philadelphia Film Festival - 2003
Thessaloniki International Film Festival - 2002
Belgrade International Film Festival - 2003
Semarang International Film Festival - 2003
Rotterdam International Film Festival - 2003
Paris Festival du Film de Paris - 2003 (in competition)
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival - 2002 (in competition)
Trieste Film Festival - 2003 (in competition)
Goa International Film Festival of India - 2007
Skopje Film Festival - 2007
Melbourne International Film Festival - 2003
Cambridge Film Festival - 2003
Gijon International Film Festival - 2009
Paris Forum des images - 2002
Toronto International Film Festival - 2002
Mannheim International Film Festival - 2002
Torino Film Festival - 2002 (in competition)
San Sebastian International Film Festival - 2014
Luxembourg CinÉast - 2012
Rouen A l'Est, du nouveau - 2011
Goa International Film Festival of India - 2003
Oldenburg International Film Festival - 2003
Pune International Film Festival - 2010
Bergamo Film Meeting - 2010
Bogota Film Festival - 2003 (in competition)
Belfort Entre Vues International Film Festival - 2002 (in competition)
La Rochelle International Film Festival - 2003
Los Angeles Film Festival - 2003
Oldenburg Film Days - 2003
Ankara Festival on Wheels - 2002
Bergen International Film Festival - 2006
Brussels Festival of European Film - 2003 (in competition)
Santa Barbara International Film Festival - 2003
Essonne CINESSONNE - 2006
Sydney Film Festival - 2003 (in competition)
Angers Premiers Plans - 2003 (in competition)
Calgary International Film Festival - 2003
Sodankylä Midnight Sun Film Festival - 2003
Stockholm International Film Festival - 2002 (in competition)
Busan International Film Festival - 2002
Mar del Plata International Film Festival - 2003
San Jose Cinequest - 2003
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival - 2003
Singapore International Film Festival - 2004
Warsaw International Film Festival - 2002 (in competition)
Valenciennes Film Festival - 2003 (in competition)
Chicago International Film Festival - 2002 (in competition)
Setúbal FESTROIA  International Film Festival - 2003 (in competition)
Minneapolis St. Paul  International Film Festival - 2003
Bratislava International Film Festival - 2003
Kosice Art Film Fest - 2003
Targu-Mures AlterNative - 2002
Săo Paulo International Film Festival - 2002 (in competition)
Gotland Hela Sveriges Film Festival - 2003
Motovun Film Festival - 2003
Sedona International Film Festival - 2003
London Film Festival - 2002
Maryland Film Festival - 2003
Tromso International Film Festival - 2003 (in competition)
Edmonton International Film Festival - 2003
Tbilisi International Film Festival - 2003
Guadarrama International Film Festival - 2003 (in competition)
Barcelona 100 000 RETINAS - 2006
San Francisco International Film Festival - 2003
Roma MedFilm Festival - 2003
Asuncion Festival Internacional de Cine Paraguay - 2006 (in competition)
Copenhagen NatFilm - 2003
Istanbul International Film Festival - 2003
Vancouver International Film Festival - 2002
Sarajevo Film Festival - 2003
Thiruvananthapuram Kerala International Film Festival - 2007
Adelaide International Film Festival - 2003
Brisbane International Film Festival - 2003
Auckland-Wellington New Zealand IFF - 2003
Leeds International Film Festival - 2003
Jakarta JIFFest  - 2005
Sofia International Film Festival - 2003

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