6th Blue Danube Film Festival

This film is a beautiful slow motion interaction of body and line creating an intricate tension between forms. (Danski Tang - Jury)

Mondo Domino conveys one of the most important messages in 2021; that we should try not to destroy our land to serve our despotism, which is likely to happen in the foreseeable future if we continue to do so... This serious and tense subject is not presented in a depressing way; it uses humour-but not in a bagatizing way- to make the viewer realize it's contribution to this process that affects the whole world. The film delivers the message intelligently. It also uses remarkable technical solutions, unique colour schemes, professional animation and cinematography to back up its validity for the winning post. (Luca Fürst, Dávid Huszár - Student Jury)

A profoundly personal and genuine presentation of domestic violence, expressed without any judgement and condemnation, in a plaint and resigned tone. The movie, starting out as a simple family video, gradually shows the tragic of the events. Beyond the topic, the act of processing a trauma makes this an exemplary venture as well. (Gábor Gelencsér - Jury)

The tragedy of the Afghan crisis in the fate of a young family. This fateful documentary tells the effect of the practically incomprehensible internal situation of the country on everyday life through several years, grasping the essence of the events so directly that the camera doesn’t even seem to be a part of the characters’ lives. (Gábor Gelencsér - Jury)

In the film, the director treats her visit to her home village with special sensitivity while facing horrific childhood memories. (Leah Hendrick - Student Jury)

I was captured by the intimacy and interrogation that the film grips you in. It was shot in a way that forces you as a view to be within the small house, The use of stop frame adds to the process of time which gives the feeling of decay this is emphasised by the imagery of the house that begs to be modernised. I enjoyed how they used the illustration of the creatures(flies and cows) as representation of others that occupy the small old house. The narration is also very calming He touched on many societal and systematic issue that conflict him as he finds himself within these walls. (Ayabonga Magwaxaza - Jury)

‘On Time’ takes its inspiration from Japanese haiku, which it also formally adapts: the film copies the density of the text by marvelously mixing movie making techniques. (Botond Emődy - Student Jury)

This film is full of grace, as delicate as its subject (a fragile and touching young girl). The director managed to chronicle the daily life of this child and her parents in a very precise and sensitive way. We're on a fine line, between intimate and ecological matters. The camera is always at the right distance and the editing, very subtil and sharp, avoids the trap of a spectacular and pathetic narration. The direction of the cast, also very subtil and naturalist, takes a great part of this achievement, and plunges us in a border between drama and documentary. (Delphine Leoni - Jury)

A settled debut feature with a unique vision, which takes you into the deep blue loneliness.(Péter Hajmási - Student Jury)

How to capture in one minute an image that can portrait social injustice, a glance of lost freedom, or a silent voice? With an interesting, unique narrative and sensitive approach to a social issue, this film reveals and reflects the struggle of children’s been displaced and deprived from their own freedom, from their own place and identity. This film shows us a real world in a constant battle, in a constant state of explosion. The award goes to Leo, a film by Mohammad Moein Rouholamini. Congratulations!! (Mariángela Martínez Restrepo - Jury)

Mohammad Moein Rouholamini's single-take film, Leo is about perseverance and lacking opportunities. A striking and skillful grasp of the innate desire for freedom and joy. A poignant, yet not didactically moralizing reflection of social irresponsibility and injustice. (Liza Somogyi - Student Jury)

The portrayal of one of the most critical social crises in a deeply humanistic, aesthetically puritanical, touchingly refined manner. It is of particular importance that this movie supports its values in a highly divided social environment with regard to its topic. (Gábor Gelencsér - Jury)

Said Hamich’s first short film, The Departure, presents the vulnerability and innocence of a child in isolation from his homeland with great sensitivity and subtle film language tools. I would single out Marine Atlan’s cinematography, which highlights the contrast between the warmth of the familiar and the harshness of the unknown.​ (Maya Makádi - Student Jury)

A social panorama unfolding from an ordinary situation about the discrimination of strangers in an environment that considers itself democratic and liberal. The movie manages to formulate this complex issue in a most simplified, puritanical manner, making it powerful and providing some food for thought as well.(Gábor Gelencsér - Jury)

Hunting is an alternative continuation of the Basque animation, Homage to Tarzan (1965) by Rafael Ruiz Balerdi. The film blends joy with violence and savagery. It combines abstract and concrete visual language, and by a peculiarly dynamic animation style, tense soundtrack and rhythmic edit, depicts destruction, the brutality of mankind, the cruelty of our present-day reality. (Blanka Ágnes Nagy - Student Jury)