Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

The Virus (A Vírus)

Ágnes KOCSIS 2005 Hungary Fiction color 27min 35mm
In the life of a young virologist appears a different kind of virus. The kind he wasn't expecting...

Director

Ágnes KOCSIS

Ágnes Kocsis was born in Budapest in 1971. She received her diploma from Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Budapest. She majored in Polish language and literature, aesthetics, and film-theory. In 2005 she graduated as a film director from the Hungarian Academy of Theatre and Film Art Budapest. In 2003 she attended two semesters at the Italian National Film School in Rome (aka Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) with a scholarship studying directing and scriptwriting. Her short film THE VIRUS won the third prize of the Cinefondation at the 59th Cannes Film festival, and FRESH AIR, her first feature film was presented in the International Critics' Week section of the same edition of the Cannes festival.

Ágnes KOCSIS

2006 FRESH AIR

2005 THE VIRUS

2003 18 PICTURES FROM THE LIFE OF A CONSERVE FACTORY GIRL

2001 IT WOULD BE LIKE SANDOKAN

2000 ASSORTED LETTERS