An essay film shot on four continents — Ecuador, Mexico, DR Congo, Cambodia — following seven exploited children: child labour, prostitution, child soldiers. Co-production: MTV Hungary, Hírtv, Duna TV, RTBF, YLE, RTP, ETV, TV Catalonia, Canal+ Poland. Music: Tibor Szemző · Cinematography: Tibor Máthé H.S.C.
"For its masterful filmmaking and restrained approach to an extremely difficult subject, the winner uses evocative images and sound to create an emotionally powerful cinematic experience that challenges and rewards its audience."
Maysles Brothers Award Jury · 31st Starz Denver International Film Festival, 2008
Cameras given to Albanian and Serbian child witnesses to process the trauma of the Balkan war. Shot in Mitrovica, Pristina and Belgrade — the director was arrested by Serbian secret services. Broadcast on Sundance Channel (entire USA). Supported by the Soros Documentary Fund.
"Moldoványi has created a shattering and harrowing work; his images linger long in the memory, and his probing questions leave one unsettled. Recalls Rossellini's Germany Year Zero and Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood."
Bertrand Bacque · Visions du Réel
A portrait of Chinese immigrants in Budapest and a journey of identity. Released theatrically in Hungary. Co-production: Canal+ France, Canal+ Belgium, RTBF, Hungarian Television. Supported by EURIMAGES, CNC. Featured in 303 Hungarian Films You Must See Before You Die.
"Az út is so perfectly photographed that its origins are almost unbelievable. Moldoványi tells the decade's strangest love story in a road movie painted on silk with Chinese ink. A wonderful, watchable film."
Andrew J. Horton · Central Europe Review / Kinoeye
"There are films that stubbornly resist being quickly forgotten. Another Planet is such a film. We admire the director for his courage and persistence — he worked for more than five years to realise this moving and disturbing masterpiece. With his artistic means and deep spirituality he transcends the boundaries of documentary film."International Jury Statement · 57th Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, 2008
Dr. Ferenc Moldoványi is an internationally acclaimed film director, documentary filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer — a dual citizen of the United States and Hungary who has shaped international documentary discourse for three decades.
Born in Hungary, he studied at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, then continued at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière in Paris on a French government scholarship. In 1995 he founded Engram Film Productions in Budapest, which he led for over two decades — a professional production company supported by EURIMAGES, the EU MEDIA Plus Programme and the Sundance Documentary Fund.
His films — The Way (1997), Children – Kosovo 2000 (2001) and Another Planet (2008) — have screened at nearly 160 international film festivals in over 50 countries, winning more than 40 awards. From the Berlinale to Locarno, Montreal, Denver, Houston, Thessaloniki and Busan, his films engage with the most urgent questions of our time: human rights, children in wartime, migration and identity.
His work has been broadcast by the Sundance Channel (entire USA), Canal+, RTBF, YLE, RTP, Canal Once, Hungarian Television, Duna TV and Hírtv. He received the UNICEF Highest Distinction — the Bouquet of Flowers presented by Sir Roger Moore — and the Human Rights Prize of the Council of Europe.
From 2019 to 2026, he served as a tenured Associate Professor in Film at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he built and led the film programme. His students achieved the department's first international festival awards.
Voting Member of the European Film Academy since 2010. His work has been covered by Variety, Le Monde, Berliner Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, La Libre Belgique, Libération, Le Soir, Télérama, Realscreen, Screen International and Filmvilág.