Bálint Kenyeres

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Bálint Kenyeres

Filmmaker born in 1976 in Budapest. After studying philosophy, film history, and film theory, he graduated as a film director from the Budapest Film and Theatre Academy in 2006. Since then, he has been a member of the European Film Academy. His film Closing Time premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was selected for more than 30 other festivals. His short Before Dawn was in Competition at the …

Known For

Son of SaulSon of Saul · 2015
Son of Saul
7.12015
MovieWarDrama
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
The SpectacleThe Spectacle · 2025
The Spectacle
2025
MovieDrama
A young Roma boy is lifted into the light, only to find it fades in an unexpected way.
YesterdayYesterday · 2018
Yesterday
4.42018
MovieDrama
50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) · 2007
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
6.02007
MovieDrama
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.
DealerDealer · 2004
Dealer
7.02004
MovieDrama
A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.
ForestForest · 2003
Forest
6.52003
MovieDrama
Every day life for young men and women in Budapest is on display. All "teenage savages" at the time when communism disappeared in Eastern Europe, they now view the world in a sinister way. Examples: A woman becomes irritated with a man who has left his dog. A father has an argument with his wife about an alarming (to the parents) arousal of sexuality in their 10 y.o. daughter. A young girl is distressed by her growing realization that she is more and more like her sadistic grandmother. A conversation between two guys, apparently about an old car, takes an unexpected turn.
Closing TimeClosing Time · 1999
Closing Time
8.01999
Movie
This “Béla Tarr-esque” short presents a small pub right before closing time. The story is about a chess game which turns bad after the final move.
Before DawnBefore Dawn · 2007
Before Dawn
6.32007
MovieActionDrama
Before Dawn has a single shot which is several minutes in length. Technically this is immaculate, visually it is stunning. The story is set in a field; where the field is we don't know, but a lone truck drives up into the field and stops. A horn beeps and from beneath the long grass thirty of so people appear and proceed to enter the truck. We take it they hiding from something and this is their doorway. The truck leaves, but only to be greeted by a mass of police and even a helicopter blocking their path.

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