The Bem Cinema and Café Lumen are among the screening locations hosting the Déli Doku festival, an event showcasing contemporary documentaries from South America. Building a bridge across the Atlantic, this six-day cinematic spectacle features films from Colombia, Mexico and Nicaragua, with English and Hungarian subtitles, between 16 and 21 October. Admission is free.

Real-life stories of human complexity from Latin America are showing across multiple Budapest locations for the 2018 edition of the Déli Doku Festival. Self redemption, empathy, social inequality and political issues are all touched upon in a dozen movies. Waiting for B reveals São Paulo’s Beyoncé mania, showing fans camping out by the stadium for two months to get front-row spots for the concert.

Then, capsuled in a story 82 minutes long, Amazona explores the motives behind a mother’s decision to leave her family behind in England to move to the damp Colombian jungle.

Screening locations include the Bem Cinema art-house theatre, casual District VIII hangout Café Lumen and the Cervantes Institute for Spanish studies. Debates, discussions and theme parties accompany the movie showings.

Launched in 2017, the festival is designed to bring a flavour of South American life in documentary form to Budapest audiences. The name ‘Déli Doku’ comes from merging two Hungarian words, déli meaning ‘southern’ and doku, a short version of dokumentumfilm,or ‘documentary’. The 2018 festival brings films from Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Nicaragua. There’s no admission charge and seats are assigned in order of arrival.

See the festival website and Facebook page for more details.