The ELTE– NFI FILMIO University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.
KIX is a multifaceted journey through the 12 years of a young boy growing up in Budapest, during which the rowdy kid, Sanyi, becomes a public enemy in adulthood. The film shows the everyday life of the boy and his family from a rarely witnessed perspective. Dávid Mikulán and Bálint Révész's documentary is a contemporary Hungarian report on urban poverty and marginalisation. The creators of the documentary KIX followed Sanyi with a camera from the age of eight. The boy grew up in a 28-square-meter apartment in Ferencváros with five other family members, and while his mother worked multiple shifts and his father often didn't work at all, Sanyi explored the urban jungle with his friends. When he was fifteen, Sanyi and two friends doused a mattress on Ráday Street with nail polish remover and set it on fire. The fire spread to the building, with fatal consequences.
Date: 24 February 2026, 6 p.m.
Venue: University Square Campus, Weiss Emilia Hall (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3., ground floor, in the corridor next to the cloakroom)
Director: Dávid Mikulán, Bálint Révész
Cinematographer: Dávid Mikulán
Editor: Yaël Bitton, Károly Szalai
Music: Csaba Kalotás
Our guests in the post-screening discussion will be: Dávid Mikulán, director of the film, intermedia artist and filmmaker, Bálint Révész, director of the film, documentary filmmaker and film creator, and Andrea Rácz, PhD, sociologist (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences).
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nimpjHM4_7M
Due to limited seating, advance registration is required.
Registration is available at https://ajk.elte.hu/kix-mikulan-david-es-revesz-balint-filmje-2024.
The organisers welcome any correspondence regarding the film club at eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.