We just read the good news that after 27 years, a Hungarian film managed to win a Student Acedemy Award: ‘A Siege’ is the diploma film of István Kovács, graduate at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest.

The short film is 23 minutes long and tells the story of a Bosnian woman in the war-torn Sarajevo in 1994. She is desperate to find some water to wash her hair before her important date that night, and she can’t be diverted from her goal by her neighbours and not even by the snipers.

The director won a Student Academy Award in the Narrative category, but we still don’t know whether it’s a gold, a silver or a bronze medal – it will be announced only at the ceremony on 11 October in Los Angeles. Anyway, the film will have the chance to compete for the next Oscars which is a fantastic achievement.

Another Hungarian film has the chance for that: new movie film Sunset (Napszállta) of Academy Award-winning Hungarian director (who got an Oscar for Son of Saul in 2016) László Nemes Jeles will be nominated for the next year’s Oscars by Hungary, in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Check out the trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_haI91zm_mw

We hope that this year, we can have a Hungarian Oscar-winner movie again. Like and share our article, if you agree with us. ;)