The members of the jury:
András Bán, art critic
(Miskolc University, Dep. of Cultural and Visual Anthropology)
Judit Klein, editor
(Hungarian Television, Editor Minority Programming)
András Péterffy, director, teacher
(Eötvös Loránd Univeristy, Creative Media Studies)
Ákos Östör, anthropologist, film director
(Wesleyan University, USA),
Vilmos Tánczos, ethnographical researcher
(Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Romani Kris
(Romani Krisz)
2004, 50'
Director: Kriszta Bódis
The film is unique even in an international context, since the romani kris has not yet been filmed. This film is an unparalleled example of the fact, that this is a living tradition, and it is also exceptional in the sense that the Roma rarely develop the kris to this extreme, ultimate stage.
Homecoming Pictures
(Hazatérő képek)
2003, 85'
Director: Attila N. Magyar
The filmmaker group started out to Transylvania with the photographs of Béla Kása, a collection of about 25 years' work. Their aim was to find the countrymen, Hungarian Romanian and Gipsy musicians from the photos. The protagonists get to see their pictures, facing themselves from many years before. While sharing memories they also play their musical instruments.
Distant Temple
(Távoli templom)
2002, 91'
Director: János Tari
The international staff of the film followed the life of the community linked with the only surviving orthodox synagogue. They met each year in the end of May, in remembrance of their rabbi. Different life- stories prevail throughout the film when those returning from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and New York meet at the grave of Mózes Vorhad, the rabbi of Makó.
"... it will be seeded in the future ..."
("...de majd jövőbe bevetjük...")
2004, 44'
Director: János Beregszászi, Ágnes Feczkó, Gábor Gyuris, Levente Ádám Soós
Szék, the Transylvanian town, known for its folklore, after the change of regime had gone through dramatic changes regarding its culture and society: 80% of the working inhabitants of the once flourishing village today look for opportunities in Hungary to make their living. The sad consequences are that most families from Szék are falling apart and today's kids are raised on the streets or by the grandparents.
Off We Go!
(Menjünk)
2003, 41'
Director: Petra Andits, Dániel Béres
The film aims to introduce the world of those youngsters who go inter-railing each summer, who live on the trains and in the train stations and youth hostels of Europe. Their only equipment is a backpack and a train ticket valid for all trains.
Down And Out
(Alagsor)
2001, 50'
Director: Tamás Almási
Laci can get you a high-school certificate for thirty thousand Forints, Krisztián is a record holder on video games, Imi lives off his low income earner mother. At least that's what friends say. They have a meeting place in the basement of the housing estate where Laci lives. They think sometimes they managed to create a small island in this cell painted red, among the worn speakers. But they only moved down here, to the deep. Down and out.
Tales of Chance
(Esély - mesék)
2002, 51'
Director: János Litauszki
There was a film fifteen years ago about how the Gipsy inhabitants of Hungary's most hidden village tried to break free from the poverty, with learning French. The filmmakers show, what happened with the people, who were then children, and how today's children live, is there more opportunity for them than for their parents.
God Willing
(Hogyha az Isten akarja)
2002, 15'
Director: László Petke
Őrkő is a small village with Gipsy inhabitants in a Hungarian area in Romania. The only way that gives them hope to get out of the poverty is studying. While kids are in school, their parents are struggling for everyday living.
Divided
(Se künn, se benn...)
2004, 55'
Director: Sándor Mohi
The small and hidden settlements of the Csiki mountains developed on the borders of large cultural regions throughout the passed two hundred years: cultures determined by Catholicism and Orthodoxy, Transylvania and Moldva, Hungarian and Romanian language, where identities of the Székely, Csángó and Romanian meet. History has formed a very unique mixture of identity in these people, who during the times belonged once here, once there.
The members of the jury:
Gergely Bérczessy, film critic, journalist
Katalin Ernyey, anthropologist, archaeologist
Zsuzsa Kozák, media lecturer
Culture - face
(Kultúrkép)
2003, 46'
Director: Sára Haragonics
Interviews about subjects that belong to the widely interpreted definition of culture with 15-16 years old American and Hungarian students who go to the Waldorf School.
Moments from the Autumn
(Az ősz tizenkét pillanata)
2003, 17'
Director: Virág Zomborácz
Twelve moments, twelve shards of memory about being young, being in love, about war and all else that a seventy years old woman went through in her life. A lyrical portrait of my grandmother.
To József Borz Kővári for multiple roles in the movies below:
Horsemarket
2002, 13'
Director: Zsolt Varga
Operator/Cinematographer: József Borz Kővári
The story of a trade that fell through.
My Hometown On Sunday
(Szülőfalum vasárnap)
2002, 12'
Director: József Borz Kővári
The director of this film returns to his hometown and shows us moments in the life of the gipsy community living there.
Lili And Anikó
(Lili és Anikó)
2002, 22'
Director: Boga Elek, Niki Hart, András Léderer, Dóri Szegő
A documentary about two old women, Lili and Anikó. In the last months of the Second World War, during the Hungarian Nazi Terror, Lili hides seven fugitives in her villa at Gellérthegy. The 18 years old Anikó is one of them along with Anikó's sister and mother.