iamnotyourfriend

I Am Not Your Friend

(NEM VAGYOK A BARÁTOD)

Year 2009
Runtime 100 mins
Language Hungarian
Subtitles Hungarian
Alberta Premiere

Hungarian with English subtitles

18A - Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity

Set in Budapest, I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND captures the familiar feeling of a city that is smaller than it seems. An intricately woven story of nine different thirtysomethings tangled in a complicated web of relationships, the film demonstrates how everyone is related to one another in more ways than they would care to know. Though they start the film as strangers, one by one their paths cross and the deception, cheating, lying, passion and revenge that each one is experiencing becomes more clear.

Director György Pálfi (HUKKLE, TAXIDERMIA) took a dramatically different approach to the filming of I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND. By requiring improvisation from the amateur actors, co-directors, writers and four cinematographers, he has made a smart, edgy, raw, dark comedy that is informed by the actors’ reactions and ideas.

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Countries

Hungary
Festivals
Official selection Pusan International Film Festival 2009, Official selection Toronto International Film Festival 2009, Official selection Jerusalem International Film Festival 2009, Official selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009
Director
György Pálfi (Co-directors: Attila Réthly, Zsófia Ruttkay and the Actors of the film)
Producer
Péter Miskolczi, Gábor Váradi, György Pálfi, Iván Angelusz
Screenwriter
György Pálfi, Zsófia Ruttkay
Cinematographer
István Dala, Tamás Lehoczky, Dávid Lukács, Gergely Pohárnok
Editor
Réka Lemhényi HSE
Music
Quimby, Republic, Péter Máté, Júlia Postásy, Kowalsky meg a Vega, Stefan Sundström
Cast
Csaba Gosztonyi, Kati Farkas, Csaba Czene, István Szülek, Gyöngyvér Országh, Kim Corbisier, Kamilla Fátyol, Zsolt Páll, Eszter Tóth