
Directing
Máté Konkol
Known for
Directing
Credits
16 titles
Máté Konkol is a director, producer and editor. While at university, he was an assistant to Crystal Globe winner director Szabolcs Hajdu on It’s Not the Time of My Life (2016), and Oscar winner László Nemes on Sunset (2018). He regularly writes on film industry and cultural politics. His latest short films are coming-of-age stories about seeking sexual and political identity, all this through the lens of gender and class consciousness: Budapest, Closed City (2021), then Reap What You Sow (2023). Books Are Our Weapons will be his first feature.
Known for
NRA widower starts hoping that he might be able to connect with the lady next door.
Kikelet
2016
NRA socially committed student commune gathers in its yearly camp to welcome new members, debate on feminism, culture critique and direct democracy, but also sit by the fireplace and sing songs of the movement.
Books Are Our Weapons
2026
5.0Boys on Film presents ten encounters from across the globe, where the dangerous allure of a risky attraction yields emotional results — proving that the age-old adage of taking the plunge is as relevant — and sexy — as ever before. The 10 short films are: My Uncle's Friend [O Amigo do Meu Tio] (2021); Budapest, Closed City [Budapest, zárt város] (2021); Eden (2020); Chaperone (2022); Break Me [Knus meg] (2018); By His Will [שעשני כרצונו] (2021); Red Ants Bite (2019); Jim (2022); Hornbeam (2022); Too Rough (2022).
Boys on Film 23: Dangerous to Know
2023
NRShort, personal and poetic documentary etude
Böszörményi út
2015
5.0Peter takes his British friend Adam on a personal but political tour around Budapest. In an underground club, Adam makes a move at Peter — who now has to come clear with his own feelings.
Budapest, Closed City
2021
NRA week in the life of 19-years-old Noémi, a first-generation college student who recently moved to Budapest from the country, as she is becoming independent from her controlling mother and starts taking full time shifts at a toy store to support herself. In the meantime, she's facing how hard life is as a woman, especially coming from a working-class background.
Reap What You Sow
2023
Behind the camera
NRA widower starts hoping that he might be able to connect with the lady next door.
Kikelet
2016
NRA widower starts hoping that he might be able to connect with the lady next door.
Kikelet
2016
NRA socially committed student commune gathers in its yearly camp to welcome new members, debate on feminism, culture critique and direct democracy, but also sit by the fireplace and sing songs of the movement.
Books Are Our Weapons
2026
NRA socially committed student commune gathers in its yearly camp to welcome new members, debate on feminism, culture critique and direct democracy, but also sit by the fireplace and sing songs of the movement.
Books Are Our Weapons
2026
5.0Boys on Film presents ten encounters from across the globe, where the dangerous allure of a risky attraction yields emotional results — proving that the age-old adage of taking the plunge is as relevant — and sexy — as ever before. The 10 short films are: My Uncle's Friend [O Amigo do Meu Tio] (2021); Budapest, Closed City [Budapest, zárt város] (2021); Eden (2020); Chaperone (2022); Break Me [Knus meg] (2018); By His Will [שעשני כרצונו] (2021); Red Ants Bite (2019); Jim (2022); Hornbeam (2022); Too Rough (2022).
Boys on Film 23: Dangerous to Know
2023
NRShort, personal and poetic documentary etude
Böszörményi út
2015
NRShort, personal and poetic documentary etude
Böszörményi út
2015
5.0Peter takes his British friend Adam on a personal but political tour around Budapest. In an underground club, Adam makes a move at Peter — who now has to come clear with his own feelings.
Budapest, Closed City
2021
5.0Peter takes his British friend Adam on a personal but political tour around Budapest. In an underground club, Adam makes a move at Peter — who now has to come clear with his own feelings.
Budapest, Closed City
2021
NRA week in the life of 19-years-old Noémi, a first-generation college student who recently moved to Budapest from the country, as she is becoming independent from her controlling mother and starts taking full time shifts at a toy store to support herself. In the meantime, she's facing how hard life is as a woman, especially coming from a working-class background.
Reap What You Sow
2023
NRA week in the life of 19-years-old Noémi, a first-generation college student who recently moved to Budapest from the country, as she is becoming independent from her controlling mother and starts taking full time shifts at a toy store to support herself. In the meantime, she's facing how hard life is as a woman, especially coming from a working-class background.
Reap What You Sow
2023
NRA week in the life of 19-years-old Noémi, a first-generation college student who recently moved to Budapest from the country, as she is becoming independent from her controlling mother and starts taking full time shifts at a toy store to support herself. In the meantime, she's facing how hard life is as a woman, especially coming from a working-class background.
Reap What You Sow
2023
NRA teenage girl from the countryside has to grow up quickly when an innocent game goes wrong.
Vakáció
2019
NRA teenage girl from the countryside has to grow up quickly when an innocent game goes wrong.
Vakáció
2019
NRShort documentary about Budapest pubs located in houses that were marked with Jewish yellow stars in 1944.
Sárga csillagos kocsmák
2014
Found footage supercut, mashup of Hungarian feature films about the 1956 revolution.
19 minutes, 56 seconds
2018
