January 28, 2008
Some 103 productions will be featured at the annual 39th Hungarian Film Festival opening in Budapest on Tuesday. The week-long festival which ends on February 5, 18 features, 33 documentaries, 3 documentary-style features, 36 experimental and short films and 13 science and education films will be competing in their own categories.
The main competition this year will be for the festival's main feature film prize, the newly renamed Golden Reel.
The international jury of the festival will be chaired by Klaus Eder, General Secretary of the International Federation of Film Critics.
The five-day event on November 8-12 will feature 40 films selected from the best shorts shot in Europe over the past few years. The films will be classified into five thematically blocs: one for Hungarian films, two for animations and two for fictions.

