Events

Join the live events through our website or Facebook page. During the live discussions ask our guests in the chat box or record your questions to the filmmakers and share them through the Vialog app, that you can find on the individual films’ pages and the front page as well.

Wednesday, 11 November

8:00PM
Roundtable
During August, a significant part of my job, as well as most of my free time, consisted of watching Nexta videos on Telegram, and posts elsewhere about the police brutality, the daring struggle, and the unfolding drama that was taking... more

Friday, 13 November

8:00PM
Roundtable
When talking about refugees, we know that each story is unique. But what do the youngest refugees go through? What do they see and sense through the sorrow and struggles of their parents? How does escape-induced serial trauma affect their... more

Sunday, 15 November

6:00PM
Roundtable
Reflecting on events happening both in Hungary and the United States, we ask, how do mechanisms of oppression relate to each other? What kind of feelings surround this issue and what are the narratives that arise in connection to these... more
8:00PM
Roundtable
Climate movements and climate policy: enemies or partners? Can the demands of climate movements be translated into political decisions, and if so, how? Can climate policy be radical, or is it better to leave it to the movements? The... more

Monday, 16 November

3:00PM
Roundtable
Without freedom of the press, constitutional democracy is not conceptually possible: without social publicity, there is no responsible governance. President Duterte makes no secret of his desire to restrict freedom of the press and is... more
4:30PM
Roundtable
An Indonesian nanny for a Dutch family.  A gay Roma traveller in a small town in Sweden. What dilemmas do they face? Where do they belong? What does family mean to them? How does our gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity influence... more
Participant(s):
Ida Persson Lännerberg
Sandra Beerends
8:00PM
Roundtable
The support of LGBTQ communities differs from society to society, from negligence to acceptance. But there are no places in Europe similar to Chechnya, which is under Russian rule. Small communities are resisting, and fighting for the... more

Tuesday, 17 November

4:00PM
Roundtable
This panel will focus on the use of various types of archival footage in documentary film, and address questions of (re)appropriation, emotional impact, and revision of contested or silenced histories. The participants will discuss their... more
Participant(s):
Susanne Kovács
Adrian Cioflâncă
Radu Jude
Sandra Beerends
Giedre Žickyte
8:00PM
Roundtable
It started as a simple recording of events, but soon became a force powerful enough to shape our world. When does a director cross the line between being a participant and being a filmmaker when actively involved in a movement they are... more

Wednesday, 18 November

6:00PM
Roundtable
We talk to three young filmmakers from the Student and Debut Film Competition about how the unfinished past is present in their films. Barbara Berezňákova, Yuriy Pivovarov and Henrique Amud’s films were made using different techniques and... more
Participant(s):
Henrique Amud
Yuriy Pivovarov
Barbora Berezňáková
8:00PM
Roundtable
Is it possible for a recently graduated university student to help refugees stranded at the border? What can well-off American youth say to families who have been struggling from continent to continent for months? Who is teaching whom in... more
Participant(s):
András Surányi

Thursday, 19 November

8:00PM
Roundtable
The courts, like offices of state bureaucracy, constantly record the gray, everyday life of the state. The documents of a showcase lawsuit, and in particular, its submissions, are exciting resources for an audience interested in the... more

Friday, 20 November

6:00PM
Roundtable
The discussion involves three filmmakers who share a common focal point of generational responses to intimate family situations. Ronja Hemm, the director of For Your Own Sake, will recall how she found her subject in Nepal and how she was... more
Participant(s):
Paweł Chorzępa
Ronja Hemm
Akshaya Sawant

Saturday, 21 November

8:00PM
Roundtable
Andrea Pócsik, curator of the International Competition, in conversation with the members of the three juries.  The discussion is in English. more