The power of documentaries is indisputable: they are instrumental in educating the audience about the world by utilizing an arsenal of artistic tools. Internationally acclaimed documentary director Ágnes Sós teamed up again with Rita Balogh, one of the creative minds behind the event, to delight the people of Budapest with the best documentaries out there, aiming to create a fan base for the genre in the process.
Organized for the second time this year, the International Documentary Festival has an intriguing program with four Hungarian movies along with pictures from faraway countries like Scotland, the Congo, India, and Argentina, and the jury (comprised of the cream of the international and Hungarian documentary world) will honor the best of these works with a variety of awards. Every screening will be followed by a meet-and-greet with the creators, where audience members can find out everything they wish to know about the films. What makes this event extra-special is that Hungarian film lovers currently have no other way of accessing the educational artworks showing at the festival.
The first movie of the opening night, Gábor Hörcher’s Drifter, has competed at festivals all around the world, but this is the first time it’ll be on the silver screen in Budapest. Ágota Varga’s touching story Szülei szeme (His Parents’ Eyes) is another one of the eagerly anticipated pictures that the Hungarian audience will get the chance to watch. Director Lívia Gyarmathy will be presented with a lifetime-achievement award. This year, the festival will introduce an extra feature, a so-called pitching forum that involves an international team to help documentary ideas take off.
Every documentary selected for the festivalis special, exploring the world from a new perspective, and through personal stories. Representing a wide range of nations from the US through Chile to Finland, the movies shown in the section Nézz szembe az öregedéssel (Facing Old Age) tell the tales of elderly people unwilling to put up with their limited possibilities. Nézz szembe az elnyomással (Facing Oppression) takes a look behind the news, showing the real face of capitalism and economic growth with the help of individual struggles, while Nézz szember a szüleiddel (Facing Your Parents) examines parent-children conflicts and the ways available for children to break out. Finally, Nézz szembe a sztereotípiákkal (Facing Stereotypes) endeavors to challenge ideas incorrectly ingrained in many of us by shedding a new light on stereotypes. All movies will be screened with Hungarian and English subtitles.
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