Prizes of the 38th Hungarian Film Week

FEATURE FILMS
Main Prize for Best “Author” Film: ISKA’S JOURNEY directed by CSABA BOLLÓK
Main Prize for Best “Genre” Film: KONYEC directed by GÁBOR ROHONYI
Best Director: JÁNOS SZÁSZ for OPIUM - DIARY OF A MADWOMAN
Best Cinematography: TIBOR MÁTHÉ for OPIUM - DIARY OF A MADWOMAN
Best First Film / SIMÓ SÁNDOR PRIZE: ÁRPÁD BOGDÁN for HAPPY NEW LIFE
Best Production Design:
GYÖRGY ÁRVAI, EDIT SZŰCS, JÁNOS BRECKL, GÁBOR MEDVIGY and ZOLTÁN KAMONDI for DOLINA
Best Screenplay: JUDIT ELEK for THE EIGHTH DAY OF THE WEEK
Best Actress: KATA KOVÁCS for KYTHERA
Best Actor: SÁNDOR ZSÓTÉR for FRAGMENT
Best Original Music: MEMBRÁN for HAPPY NEW LIFE
Best Producer: GÁBOR SIPOS and GÁBOR RAJNA (LAOKOON FILM)
Best Editor / GOLDEN SCISSORS PRIZE: JUDIT CZAKÓ for ISKA’S JOURNEY and KYTHERA
Best Sound / GOLDEN MICROPHONE PRIZE: ISTVÁN SIPOS, MANUEL LAVAL and MATTHIAS SCHWAB for OPIUM - DIARY OF A MADWOMAN
Special Mention: SLOW MIRROR directed by IGOR and IVAN BUHAROV
GENE MOSKOWITZ PRIZE awarded by the foreign professionals to
OPIUM - DIARY OF A MADWOMAN directed by JÁNOS SZÁSZ
People's Choice via Internet
KONYEC directed by GÁBOR ROHONYI

Most successful Hungarian films in cinema in 2006
Prize of the Association of Hungarian Cinema Exhibitors: CHILDREN OF GLORY directed by KRISZTINA GODA
Prize of the National Radio and Television Board (ORTT): JUST SEX AND NOTHING ELSE directed by KRISZTINA GODA

EXPERIMENTAL AND SHORT FILMS
Best Short Feature Film: WITH A LITTLE PATIENCE directed by LÁSZLÓ NEMES JELES
Best Experimental Film: HYPOCRITICAL SAINT directed by NICOLAUS MYSLICKI
Director’s Special Prize: DÉNES NAGY for TOGETHER
Best Cinematography: MÁTÉ TÓTH WIDAMON for ALTEREGO
Special Mention: LILI HORVÁTH for SUMMER HOLIDAY

DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Main Prize: BALKAN CHAMPION directed by RÉKA KINCSES
Best Director: EDIT KŐSZEGI for ESCAPE INTO LOVE
Best Cinematography: CSABA TALÁN for PREDESTINATED (directed by Barbara Vági and Csaba Talán)
SCHIFFER PÁL PRIZE: RÉKA PIGNICZKY for JOURNEY HOME: A STORY FROM THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION OF 1956
Special Mentions:
MISS UNIVERSE 1929 - LISL GOLDARBEITER - A QUEEN IN WIEN by PÉTER FORGÁCS
THIS IS THE TIME by GYULA GULYÁS
WHY?! THE STORY OF A TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIR by BÉLA SZOBOLITS
THE FACE OF THE REVOLUTION – IN SEARCH OF A BUDAPEST GIRL by ATTILA KÉKESI
Equal Opportunities Prize: THEY LIVE THEIR LIVES – SUB-CARPATHIAN SOAP OPERA
by DEZSŐ ZSIGMOND

SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Main Prize: A FIERY AUTUMN IN THE COLD WAR – HUNGARY IN 1956
directed by JUDIT KÓTHY, JUDIT TOPITS
Best Director: ANDRÁS DÉR for THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (ARE THEY SINS?)
Best Subject: ZSOLT MARCELL TÓTH for BUDAPEST WILD