animated feature documentary, 79 min, 2024
Director: László Csáki
Producer: Miklós Kázmér, Ádám Felszeghy
Pelikan Blue is Hungary’s first animated documentary feature focusing on the historical period after the fall of communism. In the socialist era, only a lucky few had the privilege to travel abroad, especially to the West. In 1989 the Iron Curtain fell, and the borders opened up. But the first free generation of young people did not have enough money to travel to the West. What good is freedom if you can’t live it? This documentary takes us deep into the secrets of how young people then tricked the system in order to travel to the West. Based on original audio interviews.
Awards:
2025 – AnimaVerso Festival – Best Director and Best Editing
2025 – KABOOM Animation Festival – Nancy Award
2025 – 44th ANIMA, The Brussels International Animation Film Festival – Special Mention
2025 – 44. Hungarian Film Week – Feature Lenght Animation Competition, Best Director
2025 – BIDF – Budpest International Documetary Festival – Hungarian Competition, Main Prize
2025 – Association of Hungarian Journalists, Film Critics Prize for the Best Animation Film
2024 – DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – Golden Dove Feature-Length Film
2024 – ANIMEST 19th International Animation Film Festival – Teen Jury Award & Best Feature Film
2024 – ANIMIX International Animation and Comics Festival – Grand Prize
2024 – ANIMATOR Festival, Poznan – Jury Honorable Mention & The Audience Award for the Best Feature Film of International Animated Feature Film Competition
2024 – IFF ART FILM, Košice – Special Mention in the International Competition of Films from Central and Eastern Europe
2024 – ANIMAFEST, Zagreb – Special Mention
2024 – Cartoons On The Bay – Pulcinella Award for Best Animated Feature at the 28th edition of “Cartoons On The Bay” the animation festival.
2024 – DocsBarcelona – Young Jury Award DocsBarcelona – Reteena
Festivals:
2025 – 23rd Rencontres du Cinéma Européen de Vannes – European Documentaries Competition
2025 – Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film – Feature Film Competition
2025 – ANIMATIBA – Curitiba International Animation Festival – Feature Film Competition
2025 – KABOOM Animation Festival – Feature Films Competition
2025 – MONSTRA Animation Festival – Perspectives Feature Film Competition
2025 – Niigata International Animation Film Festival – Feature Film Competition
2025 – 43rd Bergamo Film Meeting, International Film Festival – Animation section is a journey of discovery through animated documentaries.
2025 – Tokyo Anime Award Festival – Feature Animation Competition
2025 – 44th ANIMA, The Brussels International Animation Film Festival – Feature Film Competition
2025 – 44th Hungarian Film Week – Feature Lenght Animation Competition
2025 – 37th PREMIERS PLANS Festival – European Feature Film Competition
2025 – BIDF – Budapest International Documentary Festival – Feature Length Documentaries Competition
2024 – 21th edition of the “Carrefour du cinéma d’animation” Festival, Forum des Images
2024 – East by Southeast 2024, Cinemateket, Danish Film Institute
2024 DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – International Competition Animated Film
2024 – 24. Filmtettfeszt – Erdélyi Magyar Filmszemle
2024 – Taichung International Animation Festival – Feature Film Competition
2024 – ANIMEST 19th International Animation Film Festival – Feature Film Competition
2024 – Vilnius Documentary Film Festival – Main Programme
2024 – FANTOCHE 23nd International Animation Film Festival – Latest Feature Film
2024 ANIMIX International Animation and Comics Festival – Feature Film Competition
2024 – Guanajuato International Film Festival – International Documentary Competition
2024 – ANIBAR International Animation Festival – Feature Film Competition
2024 – Galway Film Fleadh – Peripheral Visions – European Cinema Competition
2024 – ANIMATOR Festival – International Animated Feature Film Competition
2024 – IFF ART FILM – International Competition of Films from Central and Eastern Europe
2024 – ANNECY International Animation Film Festival – Feature Film Competition – Contrechamp
2024 – ANIMAFEST – Feature Film Competition
2024 – Cartoons On The Bay – Feature Film Competition
2024 – Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival – Fireworks section
2024 – DocsBarcelona Festival – “Docs&Pears Official Section
2024 – Hot Docs Festival – The Changing Face of Europe Section
2024 – Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival – Open Horizons Section
2024 – ARTDOCFEST RIGA – International Documentary Film Festival – Open Competition Program
2024 – FIPADOC International Documentary Festival – European Stories Competition
2023 – 41. TORINO FILM FESTIVAL – International Documentaries Competition
2023 – 27. TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL – World Premiere, Critics’ Picks Competition (11.11.2023)
Workshops:
2023 – Dok.Inkubator
2020 – Sarajevo Film Festival, Best Pack & Pitch Prize
2019 – Lisbon Docs Development Workshop
2019 – DOK Leipzig Coproduction Market
2019 – Budapest Debut Film Forum