KIX

COUNTRY: Hungary, France, Croatia

YEAR/DURATION: 2024 • 94′

documentary

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Synopsis

KIX is a 12-year odyssey following Sanyi’s journey from a rowdy street kid in Budapest to a disillusioned young adult. Fueled by an unlikely friendship with filmmakers Dávid and Bálint, the film captures the evolution of Sanyi’s life marked by family struggles, school issues, and the weight of surrogate fatherhood to his newborn sister. As Sanyi faces the challenges of adolescence, the filmmakers shift from active participants to observers in his life tumults; these culminate in a tragic turn of events forcing him to confront the responsibilities of adulthood. The film actively reflects upon the relationship between subject and filmmakers and raises the core questions of documentary filmmaking: does observation change the observed and in KIX’s case, the observers?

Festivals and awards

CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Festival 2024 – world premiere
ZagrebDox 2024 – Croatian premiere and Big Stamp Award (Regional Competition)
Munich International Documentary Festival 2024

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About director

Dávid Mikulán

is an intermedia artist and filmmaker who graduated from the Fine Art University, Budapest. His artistic practice is influenced by skateboarding, punk music, fluxus, video art and experimental music. His multidisciplinary work’s main focus is how public spaces have an effect on social structures. His short films and animations were presented at various festivals. As a volunteer and filmmaker he worked together with NGO’s and human right organizations like Oltalom Sport Association, Alternative Communities Association, The Hungarian Anti Poverty Network, the Workfare Movement For The Future. KIX is his first feature documentary.

Bálint Révész 

has worked in a range of roles through editor, writer, producer, director, and university teacher. He’s the founder behind a handful of film related organisations. Bálint focuses on making films about controversial subject matter, using challenging methods such as his first feature documentary, Granny Project, which has been 7 years in the making. The film has received the MDR prize at Dok Leipzig, Best Documentary and Editing from the Hungarian Film Critics Association, Next Generation Award at Taiwan IDFF, Doc Alliance nomination and was featured at Hot Docs, CPH:Dox. Another News Story, a film produced by him, about journalists documenting the refugee crisis, across seven countries, was in competition at the KVIFF, ZFF and featured at IDFA in 2017. He is the director and producer of the documentary film KIX.

Screening

• • INK – SATURDAY 13.7.2024.

    11:00

FREE ENTRANCE

• • VALLI CINEMA – SATURDAY 13.7.2024.

    22:00

FREE ENTRANCE