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We Exist Together. Verzió 22 coming this November!
Posted: October 01, 2025 - Updated: October 01, 2025

In November 11–19, the 22nd edition of the Verzió Film Festival will bring the latest human rights documentaries to cities across Hungary. This year’s slogan, We Exist Together, urges collective thinking about the ways we can live together amid the fractures, conflicts, and challenges of our reality. The opening film, Sundance Special Jury Award winner Coexistence, My Ass!, is a portrait of an Israeli–Palestinian stand-up comedian.

 

Become Volunteer at Verzió!
Posted: September 23, 2025 - Updated: September 23, 2025

Application deadline: 12 October (Sun), 2025

The 22nd edition of Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will once again celebrate the latest and best documentary films in the cinemas. Between 11-19 November creative documentaries from all over the world will be screened at various locations in Budapest and in other Hungarian towns.

Call for Young Jury at the 22nd Verzió Film Festival
Posted: September 16, 2025 - Updated: September 16, 2025

We invite young documentary film enthusiasts to apply to the Young Jury at this year's festival.

Deadline: 5 October, midnight CET.

 

The 22nd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival takes place between November 11-19, 2024, in Budapest and between 20-30 November online at festival.verzio.org. 

Open Call for Videographer Volunteers at Verzió
Posted: September 10, 2025 - Updated: September 10, 2025

Are you passionate about creating videos, capturing stories, or experimenting with visual storytelling for social media? Do you study film, media, communication, or simply enjoy making engaging content?

We invite you to join the 22nd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival as a videographer volunteer. You will have the chance to create short videos, reels, and behind-the-scenes content, and contribute to the festival’s online presence.

Call for Applications: Verzió Documentary Film Critics Workshop
Posted: July 23, 2025 - Updated: July 25, 2025

Verzió Documentary Film Critics Workshop
*Call for Applications*

Budapest, November 11-15, 2025

 

Are you a film critic, journalist, writer, filmmaker, artist, or currently studying to be one? Are you interested in writing about documentary cinema? 

Apply to the Verzió DocLab 2025
Posted: June 20, 2025 - Updated: July 25, 2025

Apply to the Verzió DocLab
Applications are now open to the 10th Verzió DocLab International Documentary Workshop on Story Development and Editing

Dates: 8-12 November, 2025 | Budapest
Deadline: 31 July, 2025 CET Midnight

Critical voices under attack in Hungary: open letter by the Hungarian Documentary Association
Posted: May 22, 2025 - Updated: June 20, 2025

We at Verzió are alarmed by the recent events in our country, and we stand with our friends and colleagues in the documentary film community, as well as with free press and the civil society. 

Below is a statement issued by the Hungarian Documentary Association (MADOKE) which we publish here in its original form without modifications.Share it within your film community and help us raise awareness about what is happening in Hungary!

LGBTQ+ films in the Verziotheque
Posted: May 01, 2025 - Updated: June 20, 2025

From 1 May to 30 June, seven outstanding LGBTQ-themed documentaries will be made available online, with the net proceeds of the rental fee going to the Rainbow Mission Foundation.

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Black Box Diaries at Re:Verzió
Posted: April 04, 2025 - Updated: April 17, 2025

Re:Verzió is back from March!

If you missed out on the program of the 21st Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in November, now you can catch up on the best films, including Oscar-nominated and Verzió-winning films.

At the next occassion, you can watch the Academy Award nominated documentary film, Black Box Diaries by Shiori Ito. 
We are screening the film with English and Hungarian subtitles. The follow-up discussion will take place only in Hungarian. 

Call for Entries 2025
Posted: March 14, 2025 - Updated: April 11, 2025

Submissions to the 22nd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival are open 

The Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is now accepting documentary film submissions to its 22nd edition which will be held 11–19 November 2025, in Budapest and in cities across Hungary. 

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2025
Festival dates: 11–19 November, 2025 in Budapest, Hungary

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