THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE

An Austrian filmmaker of Hungarian and Lebanese origin, born in Vienna (Austria) in 1975. He moved to Paris at the age of 18 to study fashion design. He then studied film editing at INSAS Film School in Brussels. After shooting short films such as ‘Casa Ugalde’ (2004), ‘Home’ (2006) and ‘Where is the Head of the Prison?’ (2007), and the documentary ‘Les Messieurs’ (2005), in 2009 he directed his first feature film, ‘Domaine’, starring Béatrice Dalle, which premiered at the Mostra di Venezia. It was followed by ‘Boys Like Us’ (2014), and the documentaries ‘Brothers of the Night’ (2016) and ‘If It Were Love’ (2019), which both premiered at the Berlinale. ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ (2023) is his fifth feature film and it was premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.