Prizes:
2004 - Bilbao ZINEBI
Silver Mikeldi

2004 - Zabok Tabor Film Festival
Special Mention

Who's the Cat? (Ki a macska?)
(2003, short, 35mm, colour, 8 min., 1:1,85)

Director: Péter Mészáros
Screenplay: Péter Mészáros
Based on: Péter Hajnóczy
Director of photography: Gábor Marosi
Editor: Judit Czakó
Music: Eszter Salamon
Sound: Róbert Juhász
Visual design: Fruzsina Nagy
Costumes: Eszter Salamon
Production manager: Ferenc Komjáti
Producer: György Durst
Production company: Duna Workshop, Kép-Árnyék
Cast: Gábor Somogyi, Péter Zoltán Kiss, Gábriel Kis, Dávid Voga

The film tells the story of the brutal games four boys play with a cat in an abandoned factory hall. Perhaps, by the end of the film we will be able to decide which one of them is the cat.
The story is set in Budapest, the city ruined by bombs during World War II, but it could take place in any other city in or outside Europe during any other war in the 20th century. I do not know what experiences those children had, what they actually had to go through. I was only interested to find out whether their hidden pain was still there in our memories...

Péter Mészáros, director

Festivals:
2006 - Porto FANTASPORTO
2005 - Dresden International Short Film Festival (in competition)
2005 - Freistadt "Der Neue Heimatfilm" Festival
2005 - Manchester Kinofilm
2005 - Olomouc Crossroads Film Festival
2005 - Strumica AsterFest
2005 - Trieste Film Festival (in competition)
2004 - Almería en Corto (in competition)
2004 - Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (in competition)
2004 - Athens Opening Nights International Film Festival
2004 - Belo Horizonte ISFF (in competition)
2004 - Berlin International Film Festival - Panorama
2004 - Bilbao ZINEBI (in competition)
2004 - Geneva Cinema Tous Ecrans
2004 - Giffoni International Film Festival (in competition)
2004 - Istanbul International Short Film Days
2004 - Jakarta JIFFest
2004 - Motovun Film Festival
2004 - Odense Film Festival (in competition)
2004 - Targu-Mures AlterNative (in competition)
2004 - Valencia Cinema Jove International Film Festival (in competition)
2004 - Zabok Tabor Film Festival (in competition)