Biography

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.