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Our feature-length documentary “Tales From The Prison Cell” by first time director Ábel Visky,  in coproduction with Proton Cinema, will have its World Premiere in the International Competition Program at FIPADOC Biarritz in France, which takes place from 21st. through January 26th.

Tales From the Prison Cell Hungary, Croatia, UK, 2020 | 84 minutes

Can the power of imagination amend challenged or broken relationships? Three imprisoned fathers write fairy tales that are turned into short films featuring their own family members. This creative attempt to reconnect and heal is bitter-sweet, but with an uncertain outcome. “Tales From The Prison Cell” explores family relationships showing how being in jail can affect the lives of a household and poses an inevitable question: Can magic and creativity set you free?

“Tales From The Prison Cell” celebrates its World Premiere on Tuesday 22nd at 18:30 at Gare du Midi Atalaya with the director Ábel Visky and the Producer Eszter Gyarfas in attendance. 

FIPADOC Screenings
International Documentary Competition
Wed 22 Jan, 18:30  Gare Du Midi – Atalaya
Fri 24 Jan, 12:00     Le Royal 2

Ábel Visky was born in 1987 in Bacau, Romania. After receiving his Photography, Film, and Media diploma from Sapientia University in Cluj, he earned his Film Director degree from The University of Theater and Film in Budapest, under director Ildikó Enyedi’s guidance. He has had success as the director of fictional films (Romanian Sunrise; Playfellows) as well as documentary shorts (Zsolt and Kriszta). Tales from the Prison Cell is his first feature film.

Proton Cinema is an independent production company based in Budapest, founded in 2013 by producer Viktória Petrányi and director Kornél Mundruczó. Since its foundation, Proton has been the home of admired productions of sweeping film festival success such as Delta, White God, Land of Storms, and Jupiter’s Moon. The company takes an active part in European co-productions, and was a minority co-producer in, among others, the Norwegian adventure film The Last King, and in the making of the Danish-German-Hungarian production titled 1989. яндекс

The film was produced by the Hungarian company Proton Cinema and co-produced by British Taskovski films, Hungarian Arizona MPS and Croatian Fade In (produced by Morana Ikić Komljenović), with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund, the Croatian Audiovisual Center, Creative Europe and Hungarian Film Incentive.