The festival 2015
A total of 424 films from 42 countries entered the International Nature Film Festival in 2015 in Gödöllő, Hungary. Well-known European studios, Hungarian and foreign artists participated in the festival.
Visitors could watch films at five locations during the three-day-long festival. These were the Royal Riding Hall, the House of Arts, the town Library, the Cinema and the Main Square. The most favored location was the Riding Hall of the Royal Palace, which was also the scene of the Nature Photo exhibition.
Visitors also had a chance to visit the stands of 18 exhibitors and participate in various family programs in the Lower Park (Alsópark) of the town. These focused mainly on environmental-protection issues. Friday was students’ day in which 22 school classes registered and 700 children attended film screenings and other programs. There were concerts and open-air film screenings on two nights, with Hungarian films and musicians on Friday and foreign ones on Saturday.
The three-day-long festival, together with the conference and the opening and closing ceremony, attracted about 7,000 visitors to Gödöllő in May 2015.
The awards
AWARD WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL NATURE FILM FESTIVAL IN GÖDÖLLŐ
The 2015 awards were presented on May, 17, 2015 in the Riding Hall of the Gödöllő Royal Palace.
Winners were awarded in ten categories, while six technical prizes and twenty special awards were presented. We thank the filmmakers for all their work and activity and extend our congratulations to the winners.
Based upon the decision of the jury the winners of the 10 categories are the following:
Nature Film, Natural Values
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Wild Australia: Kangaroos (Jens Westphalen, Germany)
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The Everglades – The Waterborne Wild (Zoltán Török)
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Big Tree Film (Attila Dávid Molnár)
Nature Protection - Biodiversity
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Killer Whales (Ben Walliss, Austria)
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Animal Investigators Series (Attila Dávid Molnár and associates: János Lerner, Cintia Garai, Zsolt Sásdi and Gábor Stodulka)
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In Protection of the Eastern Imperial Eagle (Gábor Stodulka)
Natural Values
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Budapest Underground (Balázs Lerner)
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Hidden Landscapes (Sándor Karácsony)
Sustainable Countryside
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Hungarian Singularity on the Steppe (Sándor Karácsony)
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Bathing Bee (Gábor Zajti)
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Thirteenth (Ibragimov Tynai, Kyrgyzstan)
Natural and Environmental Protection
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Abenteuer Lerchenberg (Andreas Ewels, Germany)
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The Water Is Taking Something (Zsolt Marcell Tóth and Kriszta Mwajas)
Science and Nature
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The Nature Film Is a Hungarian Invention (Lerner János Nógrádi Tímea)
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Inventions of Nature (Berta Enikő)
Etude Experimental Film
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A Drop Counts (Zsolt Marcell Tóth)
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Treasures of the Őrség (Tamás Szabados)
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Summer in the Guth Forest (Attila Linzenbold)
Short Film – Relationship between Humans and Nature
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How the Bird Photographer Became Visible (Zsolt Marcell Tóth)
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Second Wind (Sergey Tsys,s Russia)
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"Chicken Catchers" (Enikő Berta)
Fishing, Hunting
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Amazonia (Róbert Kiss)
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Winter Selection (Péter Novák)
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Following Wild Trout (Balázs Erdélyi-Pupa)
Animation
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The Old Santiago and the Sea (Julien Sčze, France)
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Panda (Matus Vizar, Szlovakia)
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Little bird and the Squirrel (Lena von Döhren, Switzerland)
Professional Awards
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Best Direction - Ben Walliss, Ausztria (Killer Whales)
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Best Camera Work - Zsolt Marcell Tóth (Invisible Bird Photographer)
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Best Music - Zsolt Tamás, Attila Mátyás (The Big Tree Film)
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Best 3D Technical Work - Zsolt Marcell Tóth and Áron Gauder (Lord of the Growth Rings)
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Best Animation Work- Áron Gauder (Stone Axe Man)
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Best 3D Film- László Magyar (Spineless Gangsters)
