How Are You, Shavale? / The Last Hungarian Polar Bear

Participatory Youth Films at Verzió from the Ügyvideó and Climate Projects (with Hungarian discussion)

Wednesday, 19 November, 4 PM
Művész Cinema, Buñuel Hall

Admission free, registration: https://forms.gle/5xGjEv8MJr6dsoqUA

Filmmaking can be a tool for discovery — of ourselves, of one another, and of the world around us. In participatory films, the camera does more than record: it catalyzes connection, self-reflection, collective thinking, and advocacy.

In this screening of films made by young people, we see through their eyes what it means to grow up in rural Hungary today — how they live with poverty, lack of infrastructure, discrimination, and environmental challenges, and how, despite all this, humor, hope, and creativity continue to thrive in them.

The Ügyvideó project films are the work of young people from Tomor, Lak, Borsodszirák, Hegymeg, Alsószentmárton, Kölked, and Dunaszekcső, who use film to tell stories about the issues and problems they encounter in their local communities.

The Climate Project films were created by young people from Tarnabod and the Miskolc area, exploring questions of environmental justice, unequal distribution of resources, and climate anxiety — from a personal perspective and with plenty of humor.

The films were produced in collaboration with the Department of Media and Communication at Eötvös Loránd University, the Minor Media/Culture Research Center, the Media Universalis Foundation, the Romama Social Cooperative, the Control Studio Film Association, the Foundation for a Renewing Hungary, as well as Jövőgyár and the Dr. Ámbédkar School.

Project Leads and Facilitators:

Boróka Agócs
Zsófia Ambruszter
Orsolya Bari
Zsófia Csányi
Mihály Fárizs
Sári Haragonics
Júlia Hóka
Kiara Kékes
Sári Koloncsák
Márk Lakatos
András Müllner
Márton Oblath
Gábor Rumann
Rebeka Simon
Levente Siroki
Panka Szeszák
László Szilágyi
Orsolya Tóth-Gyóllai
Veronika Török
Máté Varga