Hungarian Shorts II. / Q&A
After the screening, directors Gál András, Marta Smerechynska, Kádár Hanna will be in conversation with Péter Horányi, curator of Verzió.
Marta Smerechynska (1997) is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. She holds academic degrees from I.K. Karpenko-Kary University in Kyiv, La Fémis in Paris, and the DocNomads Erasmus Master's program in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Her films have been screened at over 30 festivals, including Visions du Réel, Sarajevo Film Festival, DMZ Docs, PÖFF Shorts, and FipaDoc. Marta's feature-length debut documentary focuses on reconnecting with her sister, who has become a nun, by exploring life in her new home—a remote women's monastery in the West of Ukraine. Recently, Marta has been focusing on portraying various facets of the Ukrainian wartime experience in her films.
Hanna Sára Kádár finished her degree in 2022 at VSMU in Bratislava as a documentary film director after she left her studies in Budapest due to the government’s attacks on the University of Theatre and Film Arts. ‘Visiting Mamajé’ is her graduation film where she explores her favourite topic, intergenerational relationships. Coming from a big family she is prone to observe family dynamics, functional and dysfunctional connections in families, her approach gives an intimate look at difficult relations without judgment. Her student film ‘Separated’ was screened at Verzió in 2021 as part of the freeSZFE section. In 2023, she was a jury member for the Young European Stories Section at FIPADOC. She is currently looking for topics to start to work on her first documentary out of university.
