Picture to download Prizes: 2008 - Bali Balinale Saraswati Award (Main Prize) 2006 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week Director's Prize for Visual Expression: Tibor Szemző, Best Sound: Tamás Zányi 2006 - Locarno International Film Festival Special Mention

A Guest of Life - Alexander Csoma De Körös (Az élet vendége - Csoma-legendárium) (2006, feature, 35mm, colour, 80 min., 1:1,33, DTS) First feature Director: Tibor Szemző Screenplay: László Sári Director of photography: István "Taikyo" Szaladják Animation: Gábor Roskó, Bálint Kolozsvári, Károly Kása Papp Editor: Teri Losonci Music: Muhammad Rafi, Joseph Haydn, Tibor Szemző Sound: Tamás Zányi Production manager: Ferenc Komjáti Producer: György Durst, Attila Bognár Production company: MEDIAWAVE 2000 Cast: Susannah York, Mari Törőcsik "A human being does not have any roots. He or she must make a pilgrimage through the human condition. That means Ladies and Gentleman, that we are all guests of life." George Steiner Csoma The poor scholar Alexander Csoma de Körös was one of the 19th century's great, original pioneers. To the scholars of his century Csoma was an obscure, Transylvanian figure, abandoned among the Himalayan hills' however, from the summits a giant cast its shadow on Central Asia. (W.W. Hunter) The Film A Guest of Life expresses Csoma's sensory impressions through gentle sonorities and appealing images - popular legends about Csoma being humorously illustrated, for example, via colour animation sequences. The footage in the Himalayan monasteries and India was shot on Super-8. The colours are very pale, hardly perceptible, whilst the spoken sections, like the film's soundtrack, are more redolent of musical expression, thus creating a highly seductive and contemplative atmosphere. The director Born in Budapest in 1955, Tibor Szemző graduated from the Hungarian Music Academy. In the late 70s he made his name as a musician and composer. In recent years his interest has turned increasingly to film as well. A Guest of Life is the first whole length film. http://csomafilm.hu Festivals: 2008 - Bali Balinale (in competition) 2008 - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008 - Wroclaw New Horizons International Film Festival - Focus on Tibor Szemző 2007 - Mill Valley Film Festival 2007 - Mumbai International Film Festival 2007 - New York Tribeca Film Festival 2007 - Perugia International Film Festival 2007 - Pune International Film Festival 2007 - Trento Mountain  Film Festival (in competition) 2006 - Arcueil Les Écrans Documentaires 2006 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition) 2006 - Calcutta International Film Festival 2006 - Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (in competition) 2006 - Locarno International Film Festival (in competition) - Critics' Week 2006 - Seville Film Festival (in competition) 2006 - Targu-Mures AlterNative 2006 - Thiruvananthapuram Kerala International Film Festival