KIX
Bálint Révész & Dávid Mikulán / Hungary, France & Croatia / 2024 / World Premiere / 94 min
Handheld skate video meets hardcore social realism in a sensational film with the energy of a three-chord punk song and an unruly group of street kids in front of the camera, shot over 12 wild years of their young lives.
Sanyi is a wild and energetic eight-year-old boy who races around the streets of Budapest on his skateboard. The city is his playground, a haven of chaos far away from his family’s cramped one-room apartment. By chance, he meets the young filmmakers Dávid and Bálint on the street, and so begins a long friendship. Over the course of 10 years, ‘KIX’ documents how an innocent eight-year-old boy grows up to become a persecuted enemy of the state. ‘Fate is stronger than will’, as a homeless man says to the camera. A dark prophecy that casts a shadow over Sanyi. For how long can he avoid the consequences of his actions? And is he simply doomed to fail? With films like ‘Streetwise’ and ‘Kids’ as its predecessors, ‘KIX’ is a sensation of a film that combines a complete unruly wildness with a genuine social commitment – even when the story takes a tragic twist.