Of the 4,288 short films entered, 11 could compete for the Palme d’Or.
Upon receipt of the award
Anna Flóra Buda thanked the entire crew of the film and the financier for supporting the creation of her film, as well as the festival for the invitation to Cannes, where she “spent the most wonderful week of her life”.
The director recommended the Golden Palm to Hungarian teachers and students, as well as to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
After the presentation in Cannes, the production entitled 27 will compete in Annecy, one of the world’s most prestigious animation film festivals, in June, where it was also included in the short film competition program. But before that
domestic viewers can also see the work on June 1-7. Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival between
In the short film competition of the Cannes festival, a Hungarian work won the main prize for the last time in 2002: the short film After the Rain by Péter Mészáros, and before that in 1996 Marcell Iványi’s film Szél was awarded the Golden Palm.
Anna Flóra Buda told MTI in Cannes: she spent ten years working on her animation work entitled 27, basically she wanted to make a film about the housing crisis. The protagonist of the work is 27-year-old Alíz, who still lives with her parents.
“The film is about how a young woman’s sexual fantasy is connected to the confinement experienced by a woman living with her parents as an adult.
That’s why I made a social porno,” he emphasized.
He also said that he was very pleased that the work was included in the short film competition together with live-action films, and that he plans to direct a live-action film in the future.
Anna Flóra Buda graduated in 2018 from the animation directing department of the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts (MOME Anim). His graduation film, Entropy, debuted at the 2019 Berlinale, where he won the Teddy Award. The film was subsequently featured in the programs of more than a hundred other festivals.
The short film 27 was produced by the French company Miyu and the Hungarian company Boddah, and produced by Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron, as well as Gábor Osváth and Benjámin Péter Lukács. The sound engineer of the film is Benjámin Péter Lukács, the music was composed by Mákó Mákó and Rozi Mákó.
The producer Boddah was founded in 2013 by Gábor Osváth, Rév Marcell and Bálint Szimler for the production of the musical film Balaton Method. The company is responsible for several successful domestic animations in recent years, including the film Superbia, directed by Luca Tóth, presented in the Critics’ Week selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Two works premiered at the Berlinale (Réka Bucsi: LOVE, Luca Tóth: úr Lidérc), while Balázs Turai’s film Amok won the main prize at the Annecy Animation Film Festival last year. Boddah is currently developing Zsuzsanna Kreif and Balázs Turai’s first full-length work, Forró a zeitung a hüllők globóján ján.
