Growing Down - Getting nominated at Berlin

For CineSuper, the year kicks off once again with an A-list festival appearance. Growing Down, directed by Bálint Dániel Sós, will compete for the Best Film award in the Perspectives section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The film's world premiere will take place in a high-profile slot on February 14 at 9:30 PM. The black-and-white debut feature has been acquired by Goodfellas International, ensuring that it will be seen in many parts of the world.

Bálint Szimler has been making short films, commercials, and award-winning music videos since his 2010 Cannes debut. In 2024, his first feature film, Lesson Learned, had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the Best Actress award and earned a Special Mention for Szimler himself. Since then, it has also been released in Hungarian cinemas, ranking among the most-watched domestic films of the year. The film's cinematographer is Emmy Award-winning Marcell Rév.

The filming of Blazing can continue. After the first half of the film was completed through self-financing and even won awards at the Cottbus Film Festival, production can now proceed with the support of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund (AVF) and the Slovak Kultminor program. The film will continue as a Slovak-Hungarian co-production, produced by CineSuper and MPhilms. The latter is supported by Mátyás Prikler, also known as a director, whose film Power was released last year in Hungarian and Slovak cinemas.