PETER KORDAY

Director, Producer, Writer

CEO of Gold Wood Pictures

Peter Korday (born Peter Halmi, 1984) is a Hungarian-born, Paris based film director, writer and producer whose cinematic world blends dreamlike visual poetry with deep emotional currents. His films often explore themes of memory, longing, identity, and inner journeys, told through images that are both delicate and haunting. He describes his own style as:

“Like Fellini dreaming through Truffaut’s lens in a Tarkovskian silence.”

He began his artistic journey as an actor, performing leading roles on international stages from Germany to Japan, Canada and the U.S. After years in theatre, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began directing and curating cultural productions. There, he started shaping his distinctive cinematic language — intuitive, atmospheric, and emotionally raw.

Since 2017, he has been based in Paris, where he co-founded an independent production company together with founding president Kristina Lorent Goztola. In 2024, the company was renamed Gold Wood Pictures, reflecting Korday’s evolving artistic vision and commitment to auteur filmmaking. As a co-founder, he has since continued to lead the company’s creative direction. His short films — including Coriandoli Verdi, Adieu, Dreams of Los Angeles, and The Neklace — have been showcased at independent international festivals and received multiple awards.

In 2025, he completed his debut feature film, Soft Floating in the Fields of Spheres, a meditative, visually rich exploration of subconscious memory, identity, and the fluidity of time. The film combines the sensibility of European art cinema with a contemporary, immersive aesthetic — a bold artistic statement from a filmmaker towards creative maturity.

He tells stories through mood, sound, and metaphor — prioritizing emotional resonance over linear plot, and intuition over exposition.

A central theme in his work is the exploration of the human subconscious — its boundaries, mechanisms, and silent influence on our lives. He is equally drawn to the transcendental, often weaving metaphysical questions into his films to evoke a deeper sense of wonder and inner reflection.

In 2025, he adopted the name Peter Korday for artistic and ethical clarity, marking a new chapter in his film career.

KORDAY’S MOVIES

Flottant légèrement dans les Champs des Sphères

Soft Floating in the Fields of Spheres

The film follows Rebecca, a Viennese ceramic artist, as she drifts between life and death after a tragic accident. Memories, regrets, and alternate futures unfold — a secret pregnancy, a lost child, paths not taken. A mysterious figure, the Witch of the East Wind, guides her inner journey — part conscience, part guardian. Through poetic visuals and a meditative tone, the film invites reflection rather than resolution. It’s less about answers, and more about feeling. This is Peter Korday’s first feature film.

Director Statement

This is my debut feature film, born from a deeply personal urgency shaped by years of international theatre and short film experience. It explores the fragility of human dignity through themes of loss, transition, and transcendence. Structured across four timelines, the story moves between reality, near-death states, and imagined alternative lives. Visual and musical language are central: stylized black-and-white imagery evokes the soul’s liminal space, gradually shifting to color as the character approaches inner clarity. A symbolic figure – portrayed in the film by a puppet – embodies conscience and transformation; a light-woven being that guides the protagonist across fear toward a new state of being. The film seeks not to convince, but to resonate — inviting viewers into a meditative space to reflect on their own lives, beyond culture, age, or belief.

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Le Collier / The Necklace

Maia beautiful Italian woman arrives in Paris to try her luck. For lack of money, she reads out to Michel, the old blind man. Maia learns that Michel keeps a precious necklace. The girl becomes obsessed with the thought that once she will have the valuable jewellery, will be able to fulfill her dreams in Paris. The film is a surrealist image of a female destiny.

Director Statement

Le Collier was born out of a quiet moment of grief — a fragile inner landscape where time slows down and memory becomes a living presence. It is my first attempt to translate emotion into image, to let silence and gesture speak where words would fall short.

The film tells a simple story, yet I hoped to convey it with a certain poetic clarity: a woman, a loss, a necklace — and the invisible thread that connects what was, what is, and what lingers. I was not interested in exposition, but in atmosphere; not in explanation, but in resonance.

Although modest in scale, the film marked the beginning of my search for a personal cinematic language — one rooted in intuition, texture, and the unspoken. It is the work of someone discovering the camera as a tool not for control, but for listening. I am deeply grateful to the collaborators who helped bring it to life, often with very limited resources but immense generosity.

This film is a farewell, a whisper, a threshold — and perhaps also a beginning.

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Contact

korday@goldwoodpictures.com