A Life Between Wars. A Portrait Of A Life With Two Identities And None At The Same Time. This Rain Will Never Stop // Verzió X ELTE

Cristina Cabrera Mira Wednesday, 24 November 2021.
“Why does war exist?” wondered This Rain Will Never Stop’s film director, Alina Garlova, in an interview for the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights. According to her, society has internalized war and its consequences. 

Minimalist Style and Political Anxiety. Taming the Garden // Verzió X ELTE

Barnabás Kiss Tuesday, 23 November 2021.
In the 2021 documentary film, Taming the Garden, director Salomé Jashi opted for a minimalist style, with many wide shots and longer takes, and not using any direct interviews. We mainly see the villagers from a fair distance, and they only talk between themselves, not directly to the camera.

Interview with Francesco Montagner, the director of Brotherhood // Verzió X ELTE

Hanna Toperczer Tuesday, 23 November 2021.
Francesco Montagner's second feature documentary film, Brotherhood, explores questions of masculinity, patriarchy, identity and destiny. It is an intimate and timeless documentary revolving around three young brothers living on their father's sheep farm. We are talking with the director.

The Activist Documentary and its Strenuous Quest to the Absolute Truth. Arica // Verzió X ELTE

Chenika Wongsechareon Thursday, 18 November 2021.
The object of truth is regarded as indispensable in the creation of activist documentaries.

Interview with Nicholas Bruckmann, the director of Not Going Quietly

Monday, 15 November 2021.
Nicholas Bruckmann's documentary Not Going Quietly is part of the Parrhesia: The Moment of Truth program section at the 18th Verzió Documentary Film Festival. 

The Fantastic. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

Daniela Esposito Friday, 13 November 2020.
The Fantastic, a documentary film by Maija Blåfield, explores the cataclysmic moment in which North Korean interviewees first experienced a foreign film. It is a moment that the majority of us living in democratic nations will take for granted, not least recall with such wonder and private fervour. 

Read about the six award winners of the 17. Verzió!

Sunday, 22 November 2020.
Verzió awarded six creators of outstanding documentary films at the annual awards ceremony on 20 November. The members of the three juries presented the winners online, calling from various countries in order to be able to congratulate the happy filmmakers. Read their statements here! 

“There’s still hope”. Interview with the director of 76 Days

Monday, 9 November 2020.
Oksana Sarkisova in conversation with Hao Wu, director of 76 Days, the opening film of Verzió on the Wuhan lockdown due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Central Bus Station – A review by Daniela Esposito

Daniela Esposito Monday, 15 June 2020.
Central Bus Station by filmmaker Tomáš Elšík is an unsettling and elegiac study of identity, belonging and anthropology. The documentary focuses on one of the largest bus stations in the world: The Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv, a concrete jungle that is virtually indestructible. The filmmaker is relatively silent instead telling the story primarily through its central protagonist, Yonathon...

The Detectives of the Post-Truth World – Bellingcat // Verzió X Utca&Karrier

Márk Tremmel Monday, 11 May 2020.
Information wars are constantly fought in the backdrop of our lives. After Russia provided military and financial support to start the war in Ukraine, it used every platform it could to deny connections between Putin’s government and those mysterious “little green men” with Russian weapons in Ukraine. There is one group, however, that disproves the lies of corrupt regimes and uncovers serious...