the National Film Institute of Canada

As the central organization of the sector, the National Film Institute focuses on the entire film, television, and moving image industry of Hungary. The main goal of its diverse activities is the comprehensive development of the sector and ensuring its long-term competitiveness in the region.

The National Film Institute’s vision: As a key institution in the motion picture sector, the NFI promotes the development of the film industry in Hungary and the creation of audiovisual works with outstanding cultural values.

The mission of the NFI is to increase the awareness and recognition of the Hungarian motion picture industry and motion pictures both at home and abroad.

This year, Áron Gauder’s Four Souls of Coyote won the Special Prize of the professional jury for creative storytelling in the international competition of animated films of the Arizona International Film Festival in Tucson . At the same time, the latest work of the creator of the Annecy Crystal winner The District! was also presented in the competition program of the Sunscreen Festival held in St. Petersburg, Florida. In addition to professionals, viewers also awarded the animated adaptation of the Indian creation story as Four Souls of Coyote won the Audience Award at the Anifilm International Festival held in Liberec, Czech Republic. And it competed for the Annecy Crystal.

The career of Áron Gauder, director of Four Souls of Coyote, started in Annecy in 2005, where he won top honour of the festival, Annecy Crystal, for The District!, a caricaturist animated film about the infamous eighth district of Budapest.

By presenting the magical world of Native American folklore, Four Souls of Coyote explores the issues of the climate crisis, when a company and the natives come face to face over the laying of oil pipelines. The community protesting for its home recalls the creation story and through the adventures of the mythical Coyote, brings the wisdom of the Indigenous people close to the audience, showing that it is easier to shape the future in the right direction by listening to the experiences of the past.

Anna Flóra Buda’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner 27was presented in the Short Competition of Annecy, while FOX TOSSING by Zénó Kristóf Mira competed with Graduation Films.

In the Freaks & Proud special, SUPERBIA by Luca Tóth was also be presented, while Annecy Classics will premiere the 4K restored version of the French-Hungarian coproduction TIME MASTERS (1982, Les Maitres du temps) by legendary René Laloux.