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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 6th Blue Danube Film Festival (20-30 September 2023) will be placed in Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava, in the capitals of 3 countries.


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 motivate a talented filmmakers from around the world, who is looking for new forms and explore the various society and human problems.

Films are evaluated by Jury within the context of the category through the filter of generally accepted filmmaking quality criteria (ie.: individual vision, production and aesthetic quality, structure, cinematography, direction, creativity, etc.).


We screen the selected films in Vienna and Budapest, as well as some of them in Bratislava. You can watch movies in a pleasant, friendly environment. The Official Selection will be screened in cinema and Cultural Centre. Online only if allowed by the filmmakers. The films will be screened with English subtitles.


We are looking forward to the movies!


Géza Bodor

Festival Director



JURY



delphine leoni



Delphine Leoni est journaliste, réalisatrice et productrice. Elle vit et travaille à Ajaccio (Corse, France). Elle a produit plusieurs films au sein de la société Stanley White (notamment, Une Vie Violente de Thierry de Peretti, sélectionné à la Semaine de la Critique - Festival de Cannes - 2017). En 2019, elle a fondé la société Lotta Films, soucieuse de participer au développement du cinéma en Corse, de proposer des regards sur cette société opposés aux représentations dominantes et d’éclairer un territoire et une population généralement hors champ. En 2021, elle a coproduit I Comete, le premier long métrage de Pascal Tagnati, sélectionné à l’Acid-Festival de Cannes. En tant que réalisatrice, elle a réalisé plusieurs documentaires et un court métrage de fiction, La Nuit est là, en 2019.



MariÁngela martinez restrepo



http://ficunam.unam.mx/invitado/mariangela-martinez-restrepo/



Mariangela. M Restrepo holds a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts. She is the Coordinator of film Selection, Distribution and Programming at the Universidad del Cine and Talents Buenos Aires, an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival. Since 2018 she has been in charge of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival’s Criticism and Young Jury Workshop and collaborates as a curator and editor of Latin American critics for Kinoscope, New York. She has also collaborated in audiovisual curatorship’s, as a jury member and has programmed exhibitions for different countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia. She also collaborates in different artistic research spaces where she develops her audiovisual projects in installation format.



Danski Tang



https://danskitang.com



Originally from China, Danski Tang is an animation filmmaker and artist now based in Los Angeles. Specializing in 2D hand-drawn animation, interdisciplinary art, and alternative documentary, Danski uses animation as a means to investigate themes of gender, sexuality, cultural indoctrination, and body politics. Her work has been shown in numerous international film festivals such as MoMA DocFortnight, Melbourne International Film Festival,Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Vienna Shorts Festival. Her latest film “Umbilical” won the Pardino d’argento (Silver Leopard) SRG SSR at the International Competition at the 72 Locarno Film Festival amongst others.



ayabonga magwaxaxa




Ayabonga Magwaxaza is a Visual artist, Filmmaker, Cinematographer, from Queenstown in the Eastern Cape, based in Johannesburg South Africa. Ayabonga is a recent graduate BA Fine Art degree (Hons) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Ayabonga is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been shown in South Africa, Greece, Hungary, the United States, and Brazil. He has participated in group shows for his artwork and participated in the celebration of Black Cinema in Brazil.



gábor gelencsér



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.



OUR Team



géza bodor



Festival Director



ferenc hegedüs



Festival Manager



norbert molvay



Dr. péter muszatics



Festival Curator



gergő fazekas




www.themajordesign.com



eszter bodor



Nóra csapody



angéla csúcs



Krisztina dombos



ÉVA FEHÉRVÁRI



luca fürst



ágnes garancsi



LEILA JORDI



LEah hendrick



diána komróczki



maya makádi



blanka ágnes nagy



liza somogyi



csaba bakó



marci baksai



botond emődy



dávid fazekas



PÉTER HAJMÁSI



levente hegedüs



dávid huszár



andrás kurucz



FERENC PÜSPÖK



dominik szabó



Blue Danube Film Festival