The District

feature film

A group of teens from the wrong side of Budapest’s tracks band together to make themselves rich by traveling back in time, burying a horde of wooly mammoths under the city’s streets, then returning to the present and drilling for oil. As creators of a new oil-producing nation, their scheme draws the attention of Putin (who uses the district’s Russian hookers as spies), Blair and George W. Bush. In the midst of it all, star-crossed teen love is in bloom. This outrageous and visually stunning animated satire plays like an unhinged ghetto updating of Romeo & Juliet smash-filtered through a politically-charged — and politically-incorrect - kaleidoscope of clashing world views and social unrest, complete with musical numbers and a wicked soundtrack of Hungarian hip-hop. You have never seen anything like it.

Awards

• Magyar Filmszemle 2005 — Best Visual
• Annecy 2005 — Cristal Award for Best Animated Feature
• Kaff, Hungary 2005 — Best Hungarian Feature & Kecskemét City Award
• Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary Awarded to Director Aron Gauder 2005
• Grand Prix of SICAF (Seoul International Cartton and Animation Festival)
• Zagreb Animafest 2005 — Best Film
• Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia 2005 — Best Feature Film
• Krok, Ukraine 2005 — Best Feature Film
• Ottawa AIFF 2005 — Best Animated Feature Award
• Anima, Belgium 2006 — Best feature & Audience Award
• Calgary Underground Film Festival, Canada 2006 — Best Feature
• Anima, Spain 2006 — Best Feature
• Monstra 2007 — Lisbon City Prize

Festivals

• Magyar Filmszemle 2005
• Berlinale, (EFM) 2005
• Annecy (Official Competition) 2005
• KAFF, Hungary 2005
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Forum of Independents) 2005
• Melbourne International Film Festival, Victoria, Australia (Animation Gallery) 2005
• SICAF, South-Korea (Official Competition) 2005
• Copenhagen International Film Festival 2005
• Toronto International Film Festival (Midnight Madness) 2005
• Helsinki International Film Festival (Animation) 2005
• 20th Umea International Film Festival, Sweden 2005
• KROK, Ukraine (Official Competition) 2005
• Ottawa, AIFF (Official Competition) 2005
• Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada Warsaw International Film Festival 2005
• Poland Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia 2005
• 6th Bergen International Film Festival, Norway 2005
• 28th Sao Paolo International Film Festival, Brazil 2005
• Zagreb Animafest (Competition) 2005
• 3rd Vilanima — Tindirindis, Lithuania 2005
• Alter — Native, Romania 2005
• Seville International Film Festival, Spain 2005
• Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan 2005
• 29th Cinanima, Portugal 2005
• FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany 2005
• Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, Canada 2005
• Oslo IFF, Norway 2005
• SciencePlusFiction, Italy 2005
• PÖFF, Estonia 2005
• Animadrid, SpainIFF Bratislava, Slovakia (International Competition) 2005
• Hungarian Film Days in Tel Aviv, Israel 2005
• Animateka Festival, Slovenia 2005
• 4th International Animation Festival, Athens, Greece 2005
• Future Film Festival, Italy 2006
• Rotterdam IFF, the Netherlands 200629th Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden 2006
• Istanbul Independent Film Festival, Turkey 2006
• Anima 2006, Belgium (In Competition) 2006
• Animac, Spain 2006
• Salaam DK, Denmark 2006
• Buff, Malmö, Sweden 2006
• Philadelphia Film Festival, USA 2006
• Mar del Plata, Argentina 2006
• Calgary Underground Film Festival, Canada 2006
• Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Germany Animabasauri, Spain (In Competition) 2006
• Deep Focus Film Festival, Ohio, USA 2006
• Achtung Berlin, Germany 2006
• 32nd Seattle IFF, USA 2006
• TIFF Transilvania, Romania 2006
• Millenaris (BAF), Budapest, Hungary 2006
• Fantasy Film Festival, Germany 2006
• Varna Intl. Film Fest, Bulgaria 2006
• Fantastic Fest, Austin, TX, US 2006
• Salaam DK, lrhus, Denmark 2006
• ICON, Israel 2006
• Holland Animation Festival, the Netherlands 2006
• Cinema St. Luis, Missouri, US 2006
• Anima Mundi 2007
• Monstra, Lisbon 2007
• Wisconsin Film Festival, Madisson, US 2007
• Dead Channels, San Francisco, US 2007