The District!


The District! is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a shortened colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület, the eighth district of Budapest, also known as Józsefváros, including an infamous neighbourhood where the film takes place.
It has been distributed in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, United Kingdom, France, the Benelux countries, Romania, Poland, Portugal and Taiwan, and it is going to be shown in the United States.
It was also shown at film festivals in Helsinki, Toronto, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Karlovy Vary and the below venues and it will be shown in Warsaw, Vancouver and São Paulo.

Plot

The film displays the Hungarian, Roma, Chinese and Arab dwellers and their alliances and conflicts in a humorous way, embedded into a fictive story of a few schoolchildren's oil-making time-travel and a Romeo and Juliet-type love of a Roma guy towards a white girl.

Cast and crew

;Directed by
;Screenplay
;Produced by
;Original Music by
;Cast

Awards

DateAwardFestivalLocationLinkobs
2004–12Best Visual ExpressionMagyar FilmszemleHungary
2005-06-11Cristal for best featureAnnecy International Animated Film FestivalAnnecy, France ^
2005-08-19Grand PrizeSeoul International Cartoon and Animation FestivalSeoul, South Korea
2005-09-25Mercury Filmworks Grand Prize For Animated FeatureOttawa International Animation FestivalOttawa, Ontario, Canada^
2005-09-28Best Animated FeatureKROK International Animated Films FestivalRussia^
2005-10-13Best Animated FilmFestival de Cine de SitgesSitges, Spain
2005Cross of Merit of the Republic of HungaryHungary^
2005Best Hungarian Feature; Kecskemét City AwardKAFF Kecskemét, Hungary
2005Golden Zagreb awardAnimafest ZagrebZagreb, Croatia
2006Best FeatureAnimaSpain
2006Best FeatureCUFF 2006 Zagreb, Canada
2006Best feature; Audience AwardAnima (film festival)Belgium
2007Lisbon City PrizeMonstra FestivalLisbon, Portugal

Notes:
  • : The panel was shocked at the technological modernity of the film and at learning that it was only made from 105 million HUF.
  • : "For its visual innovation, energetic style, and fearless satire of contemporary culture and politics"
  • : On the board Princess of Dneper – out of 130 films from 36 countries of the world.
  • : Awarded to Director Aron Gauder

Festivals

The film has been presented in several film festivals across the world, including: