“The Brutalist” director Brady Corbet sent film Twitter into a flurry last year when he boasted that it took 26 reels of 70mm film stock, weighing approximately 300 pounds, to bring his 215-minute epic to life.

Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi might have just given Corbet a run for his money.

During production of her triptych drama “Silent Friend,” which will compete for a Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival , Enyedi developed more than 65,000 feet of 35mm and nearly 30,000 feet of 16mm film stock — enough celluloid to carpet the Lido several times over.

When it came to the demanding work of processing their stock, both directors chose Budapest’s NFI Filmlab, which was founded in 1957 and remains at the forefront of cutting-edge post-production technology. A recent spate

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