American Cinematographer - April 2006 - 132

The

Refugee Experience in Hungary

by Stephanie Argy
Before Dawn director Balint

Right: A
helicopter

earned kudos at

Kenyeres is a close friend of Erdely's and
a fellow graduate of the University of
Drama and Film in Budapest. The events
that take place in the movie were origi¬
nally part of a feature script Kenyeres

Sundance this

had written, but when the director real¬

year. Below left:
A lone refugee

ized this single scene would make an
effective short film, he set about trying

menaces a

group of
refugees in

Before Dawn, a
short film that

(Janos Kalmar)

to raise the money to

escapes the
roundup. Below
right: A Pegasus
crane proved

invaluable

make it. "Hungary,

like every other European country, has a
state-funded film industry," says Erdely.

"Every project shot is funded by the
application process is elabo¬
rate, and Erdely estimates that 20-25

on

the shoot.

state." The

features and the
*he

Hungarian short film Before Dawn,

which received

an

honorable mention

at this

year's Sundance Film Festival,
takes place in what appears to be one
continuous

shot that

lasts for 13

minutes. In the moments

just before
truck pulls up on a coun¬
try road that wends through rolling hills.
Dozens of refugees hiding in the long
grass on both sides of the road rise up
sunrise,

a cargo

and scramble onto the truck. The truck

pulls out, but military vehicles and a heli¬
copter appear and force the truck back to
its original spot. The refugees pour out
of the truck and

are

rounded up

by

soldiers. At the end of the movie, after

has gone away, one refugee
managed to evade capture
stands up and into a big close-up.
Matyas Erdely, the film's director
of photography, explains that Hungary
has served as a gateway to the West
since it joined the European Union, and
because of that it has a large population
of refugees. "I think this is a universal
story," he says of the film.

everyone
who has

same

number of shorts

funded each year.

Before Dawn was
more expensive than the average
Hungarian short film - it ultimately
cost the equivalent of about $50,000 -
and Kenyeres worked for more than a
year to get sufficient funding.
While Kenyeres was putting the
project together, Erdely was studying in
the cinematography program at the
are

American Film Institute. Before Dawn
was

shot in

summer

July 2004, during the
Erdely's first

break between

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