We are always happy to pass along news of Budapest events that we think would interest our Salon friends. Today we would like to let you know about an excellent film festival that will be happening in Budapest this coming week. The Verzio Festival is an annual human rights documentary film festival held every fall in Budapest, offering a wealth of films from around the world. This year a special section of the festival is devoted to films focusing on China.
We have attended the festival every chance we have had in the last several years, and can highly recommend it. Tickets for individual films will cost 650-800 HUF, but Festival pass tickets can be purchased for just 4000 HUF through November 3rd. (Starting Nov 4th, the pass price goes up to 4500). Films will be shown at the Toldi and Cirko Gejzir cinemas in the V. district.
The festival runs from Tuesday Nov 4 to Sunday Nov 9, 2008.
We encourage you to check out as many of the films as you can -- and please help spread the word about the festival, too.
More information about the festival can be found in the announcement we received from the festival organization, below. Also, you can visit the festival website at http://www.verzio.ceu.hu/ and view the festival schedule in PDF format.
The 5th Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
November 4-9, Budapest
Venues: Toldi Cinema, Cirko-gejzir Cinema
Films are screened in original language, English subtitles, Hungarian voiceover.
More than 50 films, 36 premiers, 27 countries, 36 international docs, 11 Hungarian docs, 5 classics, and retrospective: Fragments of Chinese History.
Films about: war zones, election scams, human robots, dangerous professions, immigrants, racism, women soldiers and terrorists, drugs, gender, homelessness, political oppression, concentration camps, juvenile delinquents, vanishing cultures.
This year Verzio is celebrating its fifth anniversary and offers you an extended program to enjoy documentary cinema highlights during the 6-days marathon.
The International Panorama includes 30 outstanding films from 26 countries, out of them 29 Hungarian premiers. The Hungarian Panorama is expanded this year to include 11 strong works of contemporary Hungarian documentaries.
5 classical works of documentary cinema add a historical dimension to the contemporary program, marking the roots of the most powerful traditions in today’s documentary – direct cinema, cinema verite, and investigative documentary. Jean Rouch, Errol Morris, Gyula Gazdag, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Robert Drew are renowned masters whose time-defying works nevertheless are rarities on the big screens. A historical panorama “Fragments of Chinese History” opens up a range of disturbing, provocative, underexplored yet vital questions, which continuously affects not only contemporary Chinese society but the world at large. DOK Leipzig is our guest at the Festival Crossroads this year. Our joint program includes visually powerful and thematically diverse award-winning films from the recent years.
Festival pass: 4000 Ft – if purchased before November 4th
Starting from November 4th: 4500 Ft
Festival passes are available in Toldi and Cirko-gejzir Cinemas
Toldi: Budapest V. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36-38. tel.: 472 0397
Cirko: V. Balassi Bálint u. 15-17. tel.: 269-1915
FOR MORE INFO: www.verzio.ceu.hu
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