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.