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2020

Posted: July 24, 2020 - Updated: August 31, 2020

On the occasion of the 25th Budapest Pride Festival, we invite you to the exlusive screening of INDIANARA, a powerful Brazilian documentary, which had its world premiere at 72nd Cannes Film Festival in 2019.

Posted: June 24, 2020 - Updated: August 31, 2020

On the occasion of the Night of the Museums on June 27 we bring you a documentary that opened the Verzió Film Festival in 2014:

Posted: June 11, 2020 - Updated: August 31, 2020

On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, between June 20 and 23 we will show on our website The Wait, a documentary by Danish filmmaker Emil Langballe.

The film had its Hungarian premiere at the 14th Verzió Film Festival in 2017 where it received Special Mention from the Student Jury.

THE WAIT Emil Langballe / Denmark / 2016 / 58' / Danish, Pushto, Dari / English and Hungarian subtitles

Posted: March 16, 2020 - Updated: March 01, 2021

The screenings of Still Recording and White Right are postponed due to the pandemic.

Once we find it safe to hold these events, we will communicate the new dates on all our channels.

Meanwhile we recommend you to watch some films online, available for free:

IDFA documentaries

DA Films (1st film is free)

 

#stayathome #watchmovies

 

Photo by Fortepan/Adományozó.

Verzió16

Posted: January 30, 2020 - Updated: March 01, 2021

Encore screening series with some of the favorites of 16th Verzió

Join our free screenings between February 20 and May 28 and watch some of the most successful films from the 16th Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.

Posted: December 02, 2019 - Updated: March 01, 2021

As a 6th location, Kaposvár joins the Satellite Verzió towns with two screenings in December. 

Posted: November 20, 2019 - Updated: March 01, 2021

Following the 16th Verzió Film Festival in Budapest, the festival will be held in 5 other towns in Hungary, November 21–24. This year, for the first time, Debrecen and Szombathely will also host a selection of human rights documentaries, including the awarded films, after screenings in Pécs, Szeged and Kecskemét.

Posted: November 19, 2019 - Updated: March 01, 2021

Two Audience Award Winner Films were announced at the Closing Ceremony of the 16th Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival on 16 November at Toldi cinema. Colectív (directed by Alexander Nanau) won the Audience Award in the International category, and The Euphoria of Being (directed by Réka Szabó) won the Audience Award in the Hungarian category. 

Posted: November 18, 2019 - Updated: March 01, 2021

When I started preparing for my opening speech, a woman shared a photo of her face on social media. She wrote about how her partner abused her. She survived and reached the hospital, which filed a complaint against him, but her face will forever carry the marks of his deeds. The shocking images were meant to show that the woman had to save herself, pulling herself from her own hair—the hair her partner had also pulled—and managing to get away at the last moment. She uncovered her wounds to save herself.  She and others who bear similar wounds and face a similar fate.

Posted: November 17, 2019 - Updated: March 01, 2021

The 16th Verzió gave the Hungarian Audience Award to The Euphoria of Being, and the International Audience Award to Colectív. The Best Human Rights Award went to Advocate, the Best Student/Debut Film Award to Downstream and the Award of the Teen Jury to Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.. Moreover, Crime + Punishment and Zoryana Horobraya received Special Mention Awards. 

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