From 10 April to 16 May, we will screen five documentary films from the previous programs of the Verzió Film Festival at the Blinken OSA Archivum.
Venue:
Blinken OSA Archivum
Budapest, V., Arany János street 32.
Films are screened in their original language with English and Hungarian subtitles.
Free admission.
Please register through the following link: REGISTRATION.
Detailed program:
The Dmitriev Affair (2023)
10 April 6 p.m.
The Dmitriev Affair
Yuri Dmitriev is a man with a mission: "Every human being has the right to know where they come from and where their family lies buried." For several decades, he had been exhuming and bringing to light what many would rather forget. After years of searching the pine forests of Karelia in northwestern Russia, he discovered mass graves with thousands of people who were secretly executed during Stalin's "Great Terror". Thanks to his efforts, many families finally found out what happened to their disappeared relatives. While his work received international recognition, in Russian Dmitriev is discredited, arrested, and sentenced to 15 years.
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The film won the Best Human Rights Film Award at the 20th Verzió.
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director: Jessica Gorter
Netherlands | 2023 | 95 min | in Russian | with English and Hungarian subtitles
https://verzio.org/en/2023/films/the-dmitriev-affair
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znavSWFJ18c
Snajka: Diary of Expectations (2023)
17 April 6 p.m.
Snajka: Diary of Expectations
-screening and discussion with Roma Visual Lab-
To the general surprise of their families, Mirsad (a Roma from Kosovo) and Tea (a Croat) decide to get married. Two completely different cultures, each with their own customs and long-built expectations, meet in uncharted territory. Regardless of their love and tolerance, their mutual differences, deeply rooted in the upbringing and cultures from which they originate, emerge. Tea has just found a compromise to meet Mirsad’s family’s wishes, and has started to make money when their daughter, Frida, is born. This dark-skinned girl with a catching smile equally belongs to everyone...or no one.
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The screening will be followed by a discussion in Hungarian organized by the Roma Visual Lab. Participants will be announced later.
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The film won the Best Debut Film Award at the 20th Verzió.
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original title: Snajka: Dnevnik očekivanja
director: Tea Vidović Dalipi
Croatia, Italy, Kosovo | 2023 | 75 min | in Croatian, Albanian, English, and Romani | with English and Hungarian subtitles
https://verzio.org/en/2023/films/snajka_diary-of-expectations
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_KfzSCCt20
20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
24 April 6 p.m.
20 Days in Mariupol
On the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a team of Ukrainian journalists enter the strategic eastern port city of Mariupol. During the subsequent siege and assault, as bombs fall, inhabitants flee, and access to electricity, food, water, and medicine are severed, the team — the only international journalists left — struggles to cover the war atrocities and transmit their footage. Eventually, surrounded by Russian soldiers, they shelter in a hospital, unsure of how they’ll escape.
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director: Mstyslav Chernov
Ukraine | 2023 | 94 min | in Ukrainian | with English and Hungarian subtitles
https://verzio.org/en/2023/films/20-days-in-mariupol
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H_Fg_5x4ME
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
9 May 6 p.m.
5 Broken Cameras
Emad is a farmer in Bil'in, a village near Ramallah. He bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. In the years that followed, he filmed the bulldozers ripping the olive trees out of the ground, the steady progress of the construction of the dividing wall, burgeoning Israeli settlements, and the villagers’ non-violent protests, as well as their arrests and deaths. He kept on filming even when his cameras were destroyed one after another by the soldiers’ bullets . "I feel that the camera protects me, but it's an illusion".
The film, which was put together by Emad Burnat and Israeli co-director Guy Davidi, is a deeply personal account, a resistance journal and an extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism.
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The film won the Best Human Rights Award and the Audience Award at the 9th Verzió in 2012.
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directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
Netherlands, France, Israel, Palestine | 2011 | 90 min | in Arabic and Hebrew | with English and Hungarian subtitles
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_93nOqwmhU
Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels (2022)
16 May 6 p.m.
Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
This fascinating archive-driven documentary covers the media struggle during the Algerian war of independence through the images and diaries of Stevan Labudović. Working for Yugoslav Newsreels, Labudović was Yugoslav President Tito’s cameraman for quarter of a century. The Yugoslav support for the anticolonial struggles and the country’s role in the non-aligned movement ensured the cameraman’s insider access. As a result, the archive of the Yugoslav Newsreels in Belgrade contains a unique and largely unexplored material. The director rediscovers and footage and accompanies Labudović on his return to Algeria sixty years later, where they discover that his legacy lives on.
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director: Mila Turajlić
Serbia, France | 2022 | 94 min | in Serbian, English, French, Arabic | with English and Hungarian subtitles
https://verzio.org/en/2023/films/cine-guerrillas_scenes-from-the-labudovic-reels
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZoGPFNnig
More about the Non-Aligned Newsreels project: https://www.nonalignednewsreels.com/