Graduates

Dénes Nagy (b. 1980) is a film director based in Budapest. His debut feature film, Natural Light, won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2021. His second feature, Kurtág Fragments, an unconventional documentary about the centenary of composer György Kurtág, was released in cinemas in the spring of 2026. He is currently working on his new feature film, The Vacation.

Originally from Venezuela, Francisco Zambrano is a Paris-based international film sales executive and programmer. He began his career at Reel Suspects as Festival Manager, overseeing festival strategy for titles such as We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) and My Name Is Baghdad (2020). In 2022, he joined the international sales team at mk2 Films, where he has worked on acclaimed films including Anatomy of a Fall (2023), It Was Just an Accident (2025) and NAZA (2026). Alongside his work in international sales, he has been part of the programming team at Festival Silhouette since 2019. The festival is one of Paris’s leading events dedicated to short films.

Gergely Pohárnok was born in Budapest and graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Drama and Film as a cinematographer in 2000. Since then, Pohárnok has shot more than 30 feature films, among them Hukkle and Taxidermia (directed by György Pálfi), gaining him international recognition. He has worked with Paolo Sorrentino, Valeria Golino and Emanuele Crialese, among other acclaimed directors, and his films have premiered in Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale and many other film festivals. Pohárnok is a member of the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers (HSC) and a four-time winner of the HSC–Kodak Cinematographer Award.

Juli Berkes is a Hungarian producer. After finishing her studies, she started working at Proton Cinema as a line producer and made several international feature films. Since 2009 she has produced a line of shorts and feature films. Her passion lies in finding new voices and young talents of Hungarian cinema. She has produced five short films and four feature films by Gábor Reisz, as well as the graduation short, first and second feature films of Hajni Kis.

Her latest features include Evolution by Kornél Mundruczó (Cannes, 2021), Wild Roots by Hajni Kis (Karlovy Vary, 2021) and Explanation for Everything by Gábor Reisz (Venice Orizzonti, 2023 – Best Film Award). In 2026, her fourth feature film with Gábor Reisz, Ground Floor, premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

Juli is an EAVE and Producers on the Move alumna and a member of the European Film Academy.

Péter Benjámin Lukács is a sound designer and animation producer. His sound work includes Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul, Dénes Nagy’s documentary Kurtág Fragments, and numerous internationally acclaimed animated short films, including Flóra Anna Buda’s Palme d’Or-winning 27, for which he also served as Hungarian co-producer. He is a member of the Sound Design section of the European Film Academy.

Wanda Kiss is a Hungarian film editor and a member of the Hungarian Documentary Association (MADOKE). She studied film editing at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest before embarking on her career in the film industry. Her credits include feature films such as Black Brush, Glass Tiger 2, Kolorádó Kid and 1. In 2009, she received the Editor of the Year Award, and in 2019, she was recognised for her work as an editor on a television series.