2016Nominee
Career Highlight
Kikelet
Máté Konkol
Director · Producer · Writer
Biography
Máté Konkol is a director, producer and editor. While at university, he was an assistant to Crystal Globe winner director Szabolcs Hajdu on It’s Not the Time of My Life (2016), and Oscar winner László Nemes on Sunset (2018). He regularly writes on film industry and cultural politics. His latest short films are coming-of-age stories about seeking sexual and political identity, all this through the lens of gender and class consciousness: Budapest, Closed City (2021), then Reap What You Sow (2023). Books Are Our Weapons will be his first feature.
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2026Nominee
Best Director
Books Are Our Weapons
2021Nominee
Best Director
Budapest, Closed City
Career Highlights
2019Highlight
Career Highlight
Vakáció
2023Highlight
Best Director
Boys on Film 23: Dangerous to Know
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Budapest, Closed City
Reap What You Sow