Almost Hollywood: Kazincbarcika
Screening and discussion
This screening and the discussion afterwards in Hungarian only.
Minden évben a Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem nemzetközi és magyar dokumentumfilmes osztálya (DOCNOMADS, DOKMA) közös terepgyakorlatra látogat el a kelet-magyarországi Kazincbarcikára. A magyar és nemzetközi rendezőkből álló csapatoknak egy hét áll rendelkezésükre, hogy a városban felfedezzék a témáikat, és rövidfilmet készítsenek belőlük. A DOCNOMADS megalakulása óta eltelt 12 év alatt közel 100 rövid dokumentumfilm készült a városról, amelyből most egyedülálló válogatást mutatunk be a Verzió szakmai programjának keretében. Ezek a filmek még soha nem kerültek levetítésre együtt. A filmek után a magyar alkotók és a felkészítő tanárok, Almási Tamás és Kékesi Attila, Zurbó Dorottyával beszélgetnek a munkáikról.
Kinek ajánljuk?
Mindenkinek. Ritka lehetőség, hiszen ezek a filmek alapvetően vizsgamunkák, eddig még egy-egy kivételtől eltekintve sehol sem voltak láthatók!
Filmek:
- Szakonyi Noémi – Jenni Pohtala – Konstantin Stell – Miguel Lopez Beraza – Zimu Zhang
Fodrászváros/The City of Hairdressers (12’09”, 2013 - Meggyes Krisztina – Alexandr M. Vinogradov – Alyx Arumpac – Martina Droandi – Pham Thu Hang
Kazincbarcika hangja/Sounds of Kazincbarcika (14’25”, 2015) - Fuchs Máté – Angie Obeid – Aylin Gokmen – Khosro Khosrav
HA BOR 32520 (11’24”, 2017) - Püsök Botond – Ananthakrishnan Pillai – Charlotte Muller – Mónica B. Castrillón
Tales Of Men (9’26”, 2018) - Fanni Hatházi – Bakar Cherkezishvili – Hernan Eduardo Baron Camacho – Sarah Khalid
A Kazincbarcikai Gobelin Öltögetők Köre/The Ladies Of The Tapestry Club (11’05”, 2019) - Bognár Flóra – Conrado Hayashida – Nora Ananyan – Rajae Bouard
Még mindig szerelem/Still Love (8’07”, 2019) - Csányi Nikolett – Debashis Das – Lucien Easton – Polina Melnik
Mint egy méhecske, várva, hogy valami történjen/Like a Honeybee, Waiting for Something to Happen (19’32”, 2023) - DOKMA1
Kazincbarcika az én városom (1’04”, 2013)
Dorottya Zurbó is a film director and university teacher in Budapest, Hungary.
Her most recent feature length documentary (co-directed by Arun Bhattarai), Agent of Happiness debuted at Sundance Film Festival 2024 where it was a Grand Jury Prize nominee. The film is a playful exploration of Bhutan’s happiness index policy through the journey of a happiness agent. The film has won awards at the San Francisco FF, the Margaret Mead FF, Biografilm, Millenium Docs Against Gravity Festival, MakeDox and MAMI. It has played at over 100 film festivals around the world (CPH:DOX; Sheffield; HotDocs, IDFA, Sydney FF, Zurich FF, Thessaloniki IDF, DocsBarcelona, Durban IFF, MAMI etc.). It has also been theatrically released and will be distributed on leading digital platforms.
Dorottya’s first feature-length documentary The Next Guardian (co-directed by Arun Bhattarai), - an intimate family story set in Bhutan - premiered at IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam in the First Appearance Competition in 2017. Since then, it has been screened at more than 40 international festivals (True/False, San Francisco IFF, MoMA DocFortnight etc.). Parallelly, she worked on her first directorial debut Easy Lessons, a feature-length documentary about a young Somalian refugee girl who tries to adapt to Hungary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival Critics Week section in 2018. The film participated in more than 40 international festivals (HotDocs, Sarajevo IFF, Camden IDFF etc.) receiving awards such as the Hungarian Critics Award for Best Documentary in 2019.
She graduated from the first edition of DocNomads Joint Master in documentary directing for which she was awarded full Erasmus Mundus scholarship in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels in 2014. She also holds a PhD degree in the field of documentary and transmedia from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. She is a Berlinale Talent and took part in the Nipkow Fellowship program. Beside filmmaking, in the last 10 years she has been teaching and mentoring at the prestigious DocNomads Joint Master program in Europe.
Attila Kékesi is a documentary film director and cinematographer. He graduated as a cinematographer (1996) and director (1999) at the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE), Budapest, where he also completed his doctorate and habilitation. He wrote his DLA thesis on the ethical responsibility of documentary filmmakers. He has been teaching at the University of Theatre and Film Arts since 2001 and has been a professor since 2023. He is the head of the Documentary Directing MA course (together with Tamás Almási), the Hungarian Course Director of the international DocNomads Joint Master programme and the Deputy Head of the DLA programme of the Doctoral School of the SZFE.
In his filmmaking career as a film director, he has made about 15 films, but he has also worked as a cinematographer, editor and producer on several films. His main works are "The Spirit of the Age" (1998), "The Face of the Revolution - In Search of a Budapest Girl" (2006), "Motalko - The Chronicle of a Petrol Station" (2011), "View from the Prison" (2012), "Close to Capa" (2014), "The Virtuoso" (2016). As a cinematographer: "tititá" (2015, directed by Tamás Almási). As an editor: "The End of the Road" (2003, directed by Tamás Almási). His films have been screened and awarded at several festivals. In 2010 he received the prestigious Hungarian professional acknowledgement "Béla Balázs Award".
Tamás Almási is a Kossuth Prize and Béla Balázs award-winning film director, renowned for his fiction and documentary films, which have been selected for prestigious festivals such as FIPA Biarritz, Karlovy Vary, Cairo International Film Festival, Visions du Réel Nyon, Prix Europa Berlin, Cinéma du Réel Paris, Golden Gate International Film Festival San Francisco, and Dok-Leipzig. He has received numerous international awards, including the Grand Prize at the Hungarian Film Festival six times and the Hungarian Film Critics’ Award five times. His films have been screened in nearly 50 countries across various television networks and cinemas. Widely recognized works include Graduation, I Was Your Kid, Women Condemned, Barren, The Matter of the Heart, Helpless, Our Cells, and Puskás Hungary.
Tamás Almási is a professor emeritus at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, where he himself graduated. Since 1999, he has been teaching and leading courses at the university. Admired as both a pioneering artist and teacher, he was a visionary and one of the founders of the Documentary Directing (DokMa) and the international DocNomads master’s programs. His Hungarian and international students have successfully participated in major film festivals and have become respected figures in the film industry.
Krisztina Meggyes is a Hungarian director, producer, and impact producer. She earned her Master’s Degree in Documentary Directing from the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) in Budapest in 2015 and is currently a doctoral student, researching social impact and ethics in documentary filmmaking. Krisztina has also taught Ethics in Documentary Film for DocNomads classes as a lecturer at SZFE.
She has participated in multiple international forums and training programs, including IDFAcademy, Documentary Campus Masterschool, DOK Co-Pro Market, and the Impact Distribution Essentials Lab (Doc Society).
n 2017, she co-founded Little Bus Production in Budapest, Hungary, a company that focuses primarily on young talent in both documentary and fiction filmmaking. Their first two feature-length fiction films, Christmas Flame and Riviera East, became the most-watched Hungarian films in cinemas in 2021 and 2022.
Currently, Little Bus Production is producing several feature-length documentaries, predominantly international co-productions. Among them are the Hungarian-French Under the Dance Floor, supported by Sundance, CNC, and the Hungarian-Slovakian My Father’s Daughter, supported by the Hungarian National Film Institute and Kultminor (SK). Their latest film, the Danish-Hungarian The Lost Notebook, supported by the Danish Film Institute, premiered at CPH:DOX in 2024 and will be screened at the Verzió Film Festival.
