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6th Blue Danube Film Festival



20 September 2023 - 30 September 2023



Festival Information




In 3 countries - Austria, Hungary and Slovakia


The Blue Danube Film Festival is a film festival, which showcases independent films from all over the world. We encourage creativity and experimentation. We are open to all kinds of films.

The Blue Danube Film Festival aims to inspire and motivate talented filmmakers from all around the world, who are looking to engender new forms and who explore the condition of our society through critical lens. Films are evaluated by our professional jury within the context of their entry category with regards to generally accepted filmmaking quality criteria (ie.: subjective vision, production quality, aesthetic position, structure, cinematography, direction, creativity, etc.).

We screen all the selected films in Vienna and Budapest, as well as some of entry categories in Bratislava and Esztergom. You can watch movies in a pleasant, friendly environment.

The Official Selection will be screened in art cinemas and cultural centers. The films will be screened with English subtitles.



Best regards


Géza Bodor

Festival Director



JURY



Camila Kater (BRAzil)



camilakater.com



Camila Kater is a filmmaker, animator and educator from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She recently directed the animated documentary short CARNE (Brazil, Spain, 2019), which was qualified for the 2021 Academy Awards Oscar®, and was on the shortlist for the 2021 Goya Award. CARNE world premiered at Locarno Int'l Film Festival in 2019 and was officially selected for over 250 film festivals including TIFF, Annecy, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, AFI, Palm Springs ShortFest; and has received more than 95 awards worldwide. Kater has a bachelor's degree in Media Studies at Unicamp (Brazil), and in 2012 she was awarded with a one-year scholarship in Film and TV Production at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK) by the Brazilian government program Science Without Borders. Kater has recently received the 2021/2023 RE:ANIMA Animation Scholarship for the European Joint Master in Animation (a new Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in the area of Animation and the Creative Arts) and she is now living and studying her Masters in the three host countries, Belgium, Portugal and Finland. Kater created and is Co-Director for LESMA, a weeklong animation event in Campinas, Brazil, since 2016. For each edition, LESMA exhibited work curated by a different international animation film festival.



noemie nakai (JaPaN/FRAnce)



Noemie Nakai is a French and Japanese writer/director. Her latest short film 'Tears Teacher' premiered at Sundance, was acquired by the New York Times and went on to play at 40+ festivals worldwide. Her projects in development were selected for the Sundance x NHK screenwriting lab, Focus Asia, Talents Tokyo amongst others, as well as receiving the main award at Busan film festival's Asian Project Market. She is a member of the BAFTA connect program for emerging filmmakers.



Richard TUOhy (australia)



Richard Tuohy began making works on super 8 in the late nineteen eighties. After a brief hiatus from cinema (including formal study in philosophy for seven years) he returned to filmmaking in 2004. His films have screened at venues including the Melbourne IFF, EMAF (Osnabruck), Rotterdam IFF, New York FF, Ann Arbor and Media City and he has toured Europe, the Americas and Asia presenting programs of his and Diannas work. His films are typically highly structured. Tuohy has devoted much time and effort in sharing his knowledge through workshops and classes both in his native Australia (notably through the Artist Film Workshop in Melbourne) and internationally.



gábor gelencsér (HUNgary)



film.elte.hu



Associate professor Gábor Gelencsér is associate professor at the Film Studies Department of the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, ELTE BTK. He was born in 1961. He received his degree as a teacher of Hungarian Language & Literature and History in 1986, and in Aesthetics in 1990. He defended his PhD in 2002, and habilitated in 2008. He has published six monographs, edited several books and wrote more than 200 essays, reviews and articles on film. He also wrote entries for two film lexicons. He received the Béla Balázs Prize in 2007.



university jury



Eszter sorosi



judit szokol



lili tóth



Róbert fekete



andrás gál



mihály horváth



OUR Team



géza bodor



Festival Director



ferenc hegedüs



Festival Manager



Dr. péter muszatics



Festival Curator



katalin győry



norbert molvay



ágnes garancsi



gergő fazekas




www.themajordesign.com



eszter bodor



Orsolya Bukovszky



angéla csúcs



Krisztina dombos



anna viktória dömötör



ÉVA FEHÉRVÁRI



luca fürst



LEah hendrick



LEILA JORDI



eszter kisházy



Anna korom



maya makádi



mila taraczky



PÉTER HAJMÁSI



levente hegedüs



vilmos heim



FERENC PÜSPÖK



gergő szoták



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