November. 11. 2003.
The ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival in Targu-Mures (Marosvásárhely) ended on Sunday, November 9th. At the competition organised by the Hungarian Democratic Youth Union (MADISZ) 4 Hungarian productions won prizes.
The Grand Prize of ALTER-NATIVE, the prize of the city of Marosvásárhely went to László Csáki’s animation film Days that were Filled with Sense by Fear. The prize of the Illyés Public Foundation was awarded jointly to Renoir’s Dreams from the series Wild Imagination by Diana Groó and Resistenza by the Italian Simone Massi. Duna Workshop awarded the prize to the best Hungarian filmmaker of the region to András Hatházi for his film Bier-right or Deal by Blood while the prize of the Hungarian Film Laboratories went to Little Apocrypha by Kornél Mundruczó.
The members of the international jury at the short film competition organised for the 11th time were Goran Radovanovic director, scriptwriter and producer from Serbia-Montenegro, Polish film director Maciej Dejcze, Romanian writer and script writer Razvan Radulescu, Szekfű András, a sociologist and cinema historian from Hungary, and Transylvanian film director and cameraman Xantus Gábor.
This year a selection of full length Hungarian films were also screened at the ALTER-NATIVE Festival with A Bus Came, Wake up Mate, Libiomfi, Pejkó, Forest and Bro' among them. In the past ten years the festival has provided an opportunity for filmmakers not only from the region but from all over Europe, moreover all over the world to present their works.