Sanyi, 7 years old, is the youngest son of a very poor family in the center of Budapest. A creative and excited kid, he escapes as often as he can from his tiny family home to roam the streets, looking for breath and adventure. In the streets, he meets David, a 22-year-old artist and skater. A solid and atypical friendship begins straightaway. It will last ten years.
During these ten years, David will try to channel Sanyi’s energy and anger into skateboarding, street art and role-play, while recording all their games and documenting Sanyi’s life with his camera. But one night, shortly after his sixteenth birthday, Sanyi commits an irredeemable act. Overnight, the creative kid becomes a public enemy…
A coming-of-age story of an extreme intimacy, KIX relates a decade of happiness and drama in the life of an underprivileged kid, who tries to grow up in the turmoil of the Hungarian society struggling with identity crisis, in the middle of the ‘Orban era’…