Gábor Reisz

Gábor Reisz (Budapest, 19 January 1980) Hungarian filmmaker graduated from ELTE Faculty of Humanities - Film History and Film Theory (Budapest) in 2006, and University of Theatre and Film Arts (Budapest) as a film director in 2013. His debut feature, For Some Inexplicable Reason (2014) an unconventional coming of age story, premiered at the Karlovy Vary IFF, became a cult film in Hungary, and was a big success at the box office and on the int'l festival circuit as well. In 2015, he was invited to the Cannes Film Festival's Residence program, where he developed his new feature called Bad Poems (2018). The film went on to win 16 prizes, including the best Hungarian film of 2018 and made a recognizable admission in local cinemas. Explanation For Everything is his 3rd feature film, currently in post-production.