Picture to download Prizes: 2003 - Houston Worldfest Silver Remi Award 2003 - Wiesbaden GoEast Film Festival FIPRESCI Award 2002 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week Best First Film Screenplay: Bence Miklauzic and Balázs Maruszki, Best Actor: György Gazsó, People's choice via Internet

Sleepwakers (Ébrenjárók) (2002, feature, 35mm, colour, 102 min., 1:1,85, DolbySR) First feature Director: Bence Miklauzic Screenplay: Balázs Maruszki, Bence Miklauzic Director of photography: Márton Miklauziè Editor: Béla Barsi Music: Ádám Jávorka Sound: András Vámosi Visual design: Péter Enywári Costumes: János Breckl Production manager: Károly Rozsnyay Producer: Sándor Simó Production company: Hunnia Film Studio, Chaplin Film Cast: Sándor Almási, György Gazsó, Eszter Márkó, Csaba Pindroch, Péter László Three people. One city. A long night. During one night in Budapest, we follow the story of three people in the big city during their time of strife. Within a couple of hours, fate will change their lives forever. Sándor, the bookkeeper who has just been fired, wants only a little calm. He decides to leave everything behind and take his self-made camper and set out for a new life on the Adriatic. The city has other plans for him, however, and won’t let him escape. Soon after he heads out, he is stopped and gets entangled in the crazy life of the night. Anna is a cigarette-advertising girl but she hates this job and wants to quit. Unfortunately, lots of people won’t let her: her boyfriend, who needs to get a bunch of money together in a few hours, her hysterical boss, and her countryside brother who wants to take her, with force if need be, back home to her home in the countryside. She can’t see anyway out of the jam the three men seem to have her in. Bandi, the electrician, just wants power. Electrical, that is. After suffering a big shock at work, literally, he begins to behave stranger and becomes more and more agitated. He can’t seem to find his place at home or in any of his usual places. But when there is a power outage where he lives, he arrives at a decision which seems crazy: at any price he will try to solve the problem and turn the power back on. He, too, gets entangled in the night. The three storylines start off independent of each other, but cross paths many times throughout the night until at the end of the film they all run together. Strange figures, unfathomable situations, and lyrical moments all come together in this mosaic story of three people who come together in the story. These are three heroes who could also be us. Festivals: 2004 - Prague FEBIOFEST 2003 - Houston Worldfest (in competition) 2003 - Ljubljana International Film Festival (in competition) 2003 - Ludwigsburg European Short Film Biennale - European Highlights 2003 - Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg Film Festival - European Highlights 2003 - Wiesbaden GoEast Film Festival (in competition) 2002 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition) 2002 - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Variety Critics’ Choice 2002 - Leeds International Film Festival 2002 - Palic International Film Festival 2002 - Targu-Mures AlterNative 2002 - Trencianske Teplice Art Film  Festival