Before dawn, the wheat gently undulates on the hillside.

Before dawn, people will rise and others will take away their hope.

Balint Kenyeres was born in 1976 in Budapest. After studying philosophy, history and film theory, he graduated as a film director at the Budapest Film and Theatre Academy in 2006. BEFORE DAWN was selected for 100 Film Festivals and won 40 awards including the European Film Academy's best short film in 2006.

"For a film like this first you have to find the right location and the right faces, actors, characters and then you can develop your original idea and come up with more details. So I knew that my most important job was to find a right location for the film. I knew that I wanted a kind of closed valley and I knew that I wanted to use every angle possible. Actually I have been to every part of Hungary and I have seen every single meadow in the country."
Balint Kenyeres on Before Dawn

Commentary by Balint Kenyeres, recorded in Budapest, Hungary.

Director:   Balint Kenyeres  (their other films)
Producer:	Genre:  Narrative
Country:  Hungary	Copyright Year:  2005
Original Format:  35	Color Type:  Color
Sound Type:	Length:  00:13:00
Original Language:	Subtitle Language:
Label:   Cinema 16/Vital

This film has never been screened

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Compilations containing this film
	Commercial DVD Cinema 16: European Short Films (MC-739) 2-Disc Edition	2007	Not currently available through Microcinema International