The District!
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Nyócker! or 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 movie takes place. It is sometimes labelled as the Hungarian South Park.
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, Karlovy Vary and the below venues and it will be shown in Warsaw, Vancouver and São Paulo.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Awards
This movie received the Cristal for best feature at the Annecy animated film festival on June 11, 2005 ([1]). The panel was shocked at the technological modernity of the film and at learning that it was only made from 105 million HUF (525,000 USD).
On August 19 2005, it won the Grand Prize at Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival ([2]).
On September 25 2005, it won the Mercury Filmworks Grand Prize For Animated Feature "for its visual innovation, energetic style, and fearless satire of contemporary culture and politics" at Ottawa International Animation Festival. (Festival, Review and interview)
On September 28 2005, it was rated the best animated feature film on board the Princess of Dneper, at the KROK International Animated Film Festival, out of 130 films from 36 countries of the world ([3]).
