WHITE GOD
Kornel Mundruczo| Director | Kornel Mundruczo |
| Producer | Viktoria Petranyi, Eszter Gyarfas; The Chimney Pot, Film i Väst, Filmpartners, Hungarian National Film Fund, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions, Proton Cinema, ZDF/Arte |
| Writer | Kornel Mundruczo, Viktoria Petranyi, Kata Weber |
| Cast | Zsofia Psotta, Sandor Zsoter, Lili Monori, Lili Horvath, Laszlo Galffy, Ervin Nagy, Szabolcs Thuroczy |
| Editor | David Jancso |
| Camera | Marcell Rev |
| Screening | 2 November 2017 | 16:00 hours | Filmhuis Den Haag |
| Original Title | FEHER ISTEN |
| Year | 2014 |
| Length | 121 min |
| Country | Hungary/Germany/Sweden |
| Subtitles | Dutch |
| Section | NEW VOICES - feature length films |
Winner of the Un Certain Regard Prize in Cannes, ‘’White God’’ is a story about a relationship between humans and animals and a brutal, beautiful metaphor for the political and cultural tensions sweeping contemporary Europe.
Synopsis
Young Lili and her bastard dog Hagen are best friends. When new regulations drive the two apart, she and the dog begin a dangerous journey back towards each other. At the same time, all the unwanted, unloved and so-called ‘unfit’ dogs rise up under a new leader, Hagen, the onetime house pet who has learned all too well from his ‘Masters’ in his journey through the streets and animal control centers how to bite the hands that beat him.
Director's bio
Kornél Mundruczó (1975) is a Hungarian film and theatre director. He has directed 17 short and feature films between 1998 and 2017. In 2014, his film ‘’White God’’ won Un Certain Regard Award in Cannes as well as the film’s canine star won the Palm Dog Award for best performance by a dog. His newest feature ‘’Jupiter’s Moon’’ (2017), a story of Aryan, a Syrian refugee and his father, trying to make their way into Hungary from Serbia, was nominated for Palme d’Or.