KIX
by David Mikulan & Balint Revezs, 92 min, ARTE, HBO Max, 2024
Co-produced with Elf Pictures (HU), Eclectica (CROA).
with the support of Région SUD, CNC, Procirep, Croatian Film Agency, Media Créative.
World Premiere : CPH Dox 2024
Distribution : DysFlims & EastDoc Platform
Sanyi is a wild and energetic eight-year-old boy who races around the streets of Budapest on his skateboard. The city is his playground, a haven of chaos far away from his family’s cramped one-room apartment.
By chance, he meets the young filmmakers Dávid and Bálint on the street, and so begins a long friendship. Over the course of 12 years, ‘KIX’ documents how an innocent eight-year-old boy grows up to become a persecuted enemy of the state. ‘Fate is stronger than will’, as a homeless man says to the camera. A dark prophecy that casts a shadow over Sanyi. For how long can he avoid the consequences of his actions? And is he simply doomed to fail?
With films like ‘Streetwise’ and ‘Kids’ as its predecessors, ‘KIX’ is a sensation of a film that combines a complete unruly wildness with a genuine social commitment – even when the story takes a tragic twist.
Sanyi est un garçon de huit ans à l’énergie indomptable. Budapest est son terrain de jeu sur son skate. Un havre de chaos pour échapper à l’étroitesse de l’appartement familial.
Par hasard, il rencontre le jeune artiste vidéo Dávid dans la rue et autour de quelques tricks de skate commence une longue amitié.
Pendant 12 ans, ‘KIX’ documente comment un garçonnet innocent devient un ennemi d’état. ‘Le destin est plus fort que la volonté’ nous dit un sans domicile fixe sur le bord d’un trottoir. Une prophétie qui accompagne Sanyi comme une hombre…
Combien de temps pourra-t-il éviter les conséquences de ses actes ? Est-il voué à un triste sort ?
Avec des films comme ‘Streetwise’ et ‘Kids’ comme prédécesseurs, ‘KIX’ donne la sensation d’allier un cinéma sauvage et sans règle à un engagement social profond, même quand le récit prend un tournant tragique.
CREDITS :
ELF PICTURES, CINEPHAGE, ARTE FRANCE and HBO MAX present in co-production with ECLECTICA / Cinematographer: Dávid Mikulán / Editors: Yael Bitton, Károly Szalai / Sound Designer: Ivan Zelić / Composer: Csaba Kalotás / Colorist: Tomislav Stojanović / Executive Producer: Dávid Gutema / Co-producer: Rea Rajčić / HBO Executive Producers: Hanka Kastelicová, Tereza Bóna Keilová, Anna Závorszky / ARTE FRANCE Co-Producers: Fabrice Puchault, Anne Grolleron / Producers: Viki Réka Kiss, András Pires Muhi, Victor Ede, Bálint Révész / Directors: Dávid Mikulán, Bálint Révész
AWARDS :
Doc Fest Munchen DOK.edit Award 2024
Special Mention GoEast 2024
FIPRESCI award GoEast 2024
Big Stamp award ZagrebDox 2024
Small Stamp award ZagrebDox 2024
FIPRESCI Award ZagrebDox 2024
Movies That Matter "Camera Justitia" Award 2024
Movies That Matter Aljazeera Impact Award 2024
FESTIVALS :
CPH DOX 2024
Movies That Matter 2024
ONE WOLD 2024
Taiwan 2024
ZagrebDox 2024
Docs Against Gravity 2024
goEast 2024
Dokfest Munich 2024
Beldocs 2024
Jeonju Korea 2024
Millenium Docs Against Gravity 2024
TIDF Taiwan 2024
Docaviv 2024
DocuDays 2024
Transilvania IFF 2024
Giffoni Film Festival 2024
