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0.2 Milligrams of Gold

0,2 miligramas de ouro
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Belgium,
Brazil,
Portugal,
Hungary
2021
24 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil),
French,
English
Subtitles: 
English

8,500 kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, Diego Quinderé de Carvalho only looks at the inaccessible and menacing forest from the outside. Its Belgian counter piece, however, is easy to explore. Here, everything is laid out by people, neatly ordered and reduced to the essentials. A geologist, a gold miner and an astronomer provide insights for a philosophical exploration of the origin of existence and the future of our planet.

Kim Busch

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Director
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Script
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Cinematographer
Leo Foulet
Editor
Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Producer
Frederik Nicolai
Co-Producer
André Mielnik, Diego Quinderé de Carvalho
Sound
Sébastien Lheureux
Score
Sébastien Lheureux
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27

27
Flóra Anna Buda
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
France,
Hungary
2023
11 minutes
Hungarian
Subtitles: 
English

It is Alice’s 27th birthday today. She lives in her old room in her parents’ apartment. Her mother coddles her like a little child. Her kid brother gets on her nerves. The only space for self-realisation and living out her sexual desires is in her imagination, if at all. For economic reasons, she and many other young people are denied the chance to live an independent life in their own four walls. So Alice has to endure the confinement.

On the night of her birthday, she goes pub-crawling with a buddy and dances, free at last for a few moments, at a party on the roof of a high-rise. Looking at the nocturnal city and sobering up after all the exuberance, though, her dilemma re-surfaces again: Where is her private space where body and soul can unfold unobserved? Haunting, colourful, with a fantastic soundtrack and full of eroticism, the film describes the depressing situation of a whole generation.

Franka Sachse

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Director
Flóra Anna Buda
Script
Flóra Anna Buda
Editor
Albane du Plessix
Producer
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Gábor Osváth, Péter Benjámin Lukács
Sound
Péter Benjámin Lukács
Score
Mári Mákó, Rozi Mákó
Animation
Zoltán Koska, Gábor Mariai, Luca Tóth, Borbála Zétényi, Flóra Anna Buda
World Sales
Annabel Sebag
Artistic Design
Natália Andrade, Melinda Kádár
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Retrospective 2023
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Deadlock
Ferenc Rófusz
“It’s all over.” The worst possible fate for opponents of the regime, underlaid by a reference to “The Unkown Soldier” by The Doors. Radically simple and maximally impressive.
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Deadlock

Holtpont
Ferenc Rófusz
Retrospective 2023
Animated Film
Hungary
1982
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An execution illustrated from the point of view of the condemned man, with a musical reference to the song “The Unknown Soldier” by The Doors. Ferenc Rófusz’s film may not have been a direct statement about the roughly 200 death sentences issued against all manner of opponents of the regime in Hungary after the uprising, but its poignancy speaks for itself.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Ferenc Rófusz
Cinematographer
Zoltán Bacsó, József Gujdár
Editor
Kaim Katalin
Producer
Olga Auguszt
Sound
Zsebényi Béla
Retrospective 2023
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Mind the Steps!
István Orosz
Loneliness and threat, translated into surreal images in which the oppressive Hungarian reality of life under communism in the 1980s allegorically meets the 1956 uprising.
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Mind the Steps!

Vigyázat, lépcső!
István Orosz
Retrospective 2023
Animated Film
Hungary
1989
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A feeling of fear spreads: In an apartment building, the stairs follow no logic, men get lost with a wardrobe, everyone is lonely. The surreal threat suddenly becomes real when security agents ring the doorbell: “Csengőfrász”, the symbol for the arbitrary arrest of citizens allegedly hostile to the state from the time of the Hungarian Uprising.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
István Orosz
Cinematographer
Zoltán Bacsó
Editor
Magda Hap
Re-Visions 2020
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My Baby Left Me
Milorad Krstić
Sexual hallucinations of an abandoned man. The hell of jealousy mingles with the bonfire of vanities, pink longing fades into purple lust.
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My Baby Left Me

My Baby Left Me
Milorad Krstić
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Hungary
1995
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Sexual hallucinations of an abandoned man in which literally everything turns into a questionable object of throbbing lust. The hell of jealousy mingles with the bonfire of vanities and pink longing fades into purple desire: lecherous bodies. Pounding pain. Panting music. Phallus seeks vagina. Eternal, restless, greedy.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Milorad Krstić
Cinematographer
Mihály Kovács
Editor
Csaba Varga
Producer
Csaba Varga, András Erkel
Score
András Wahorn
Animation
Milorad Krstić
Production Company
Varga Studio
Re-Visions 2022
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New Eldorado
Tibor Kocsis
The Romanian village of Roșia Montană is believed to sit on a 300-ton gold deposit. Twenty years ago, Tibor Kocsis filmed the emergence of a protest movement against the mining project.
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New Eldorado

Új Eldorádó
Tibor Kocsis
Re-Visions 2022
Documentary Film
Hungary
2004
76 minutes
English,
French,
German,
Hungarian,
Romanian
Subtitles: 
English

The biggest gold deposit in Europe is located underneath Roșia Montană, Romania. The ancient Romans dug shafts with hammers and chisels, later gunpowder and dynamite were used to mine the precious metal. But when the possibilities of traditional mining methods seem exhausted in the early 2000s, a Canadian company enters the scene, planning to pulverise the whole village and the four neighbouring mountains – and to use highly toxic hydrocyanic acid to extract the gold from the rock. Tibor Kocsis observes over several years how the corporation is trying to drive out the inhabitants of the village, and how a resistance is forming that lasts until today.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Tibor Kocsis
Cinematographer
Tibor Kocsis
Editor
György Márió Kövári
Producer
Tibor Kocsis
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Smoke of the Fire

O fumo do fogo
Daryna Mamaisur
Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe 2023
Documentary Film
Portugal,
Ukraine,
Belgium,
Hungary
2023
22 minutes
Portuguese (Portugal),
Ukrainian
Subtitles: 
English

Learning a foreign language is like creating another self. How can you speak it without losing your own sound, without dissolving completely in it – and still be heard and noticed? This film is a charming and intellectually fastidious attempt to navigate the complexities of language, identity and trauma.

To do this, the filmmaker resorts to her own biography. Because Russia invaded Ukraine when Daryna Mamaisur, who comes from Kyiv, was in Portugal for a Doc Nomads graduate course. Home and the search for it became the defining factors of this work, as well as the traumatic situation of only being able to “witness” the difficult situation from a distance. She, the Ukrainian in Portugal, learns Portuguese. She lets the new words for “war,” “explosion” and “attack” roll off her tongue. She compares them with the soft, intimate sound of her native language, with the sound of Kyiv. Friends send audio and visual recordings from Ukraine which, combined with animations, become a multilayered essay and finally a testimony – for the resilience of language and culture, no matter where they are spoken and lived, and not least for the power of the artistic documentary, which can make speech and sound possible.

Victoria Leshchenko

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Director
Daryna Mamaisur
Cinematographer
Shaheen Ahmed, Daryna Mamaisur, Svitlana Vostrikova
Editor
Daryna Mamaisur
Producer
Frederik Nicolai, Daryna Mamaisur
Sound
Ghada Fikri, Juliette Menthonnex, Tetiana Usova
Sound Design
Anna Khvyl
World Sales
Valentina Zalevska
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Tale of the Three Flames

As três chamas
Juliette Menthonnex
International Competition Documentary Film 2023
Documentary Film
Portugal,
Hungary,
Belgium,
Switzerland
2023
21 minutes
Portuguese (Portugal),
Spanish,
Dutch
Subtitles: 
English

“See you next year!” a Portuguese fire warden says as he dismantles his control equipment at the end of the season. Humans and nature in southern Europe may be used to forest fires, but that does not change the facts: The ever more massive conflagrations are caused by climate change. We have long been living in the age of fire.

In the Portuguese interior, a forest fire has just devastated a large area. Wounded nature is silent, not a single bird is heard, only the wind that makes the charred tree trunks rustle. But the vegetation recovers astonishingly fast. Where all life seemed to be gone, greenery soon sprouts from the ruined trees. The residents of the affected region are engaged in the reconstruction with great respect for their natural environment. Because plants, too, are sentient creatures. In quiet, almost melancholic, but also hopeful images, the film pays tribute to the strength of the trees and illustrates how essential it would be for humanity to learn to live in harmony with nature again.

Annina Wettstein

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Director
Juliette Menthonnex
Cinematographer
Ilona Szekeres, Sergio da Costa
Editor
Antoine Flahaut, Juliette Menthonnex
Producer
Véronique Vergari, Victor Candeias, Agnès Boutruche
Sound
Juliette Menthonnex
Sound Design
Yatoni Roy Cantu
Kids DOK 2021
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The Summer Before Seventh Grade
Kristen van Schie
On a hot June day, the two friends Ádel and Berci, both twelve years old, are lying on a meadow. It’s the summer holidays and they talk about everything that crosses their minds.
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The Summer Before Seventh Grade

The Summer Before Seventh Grade
Kristen van Schie
Kids DOK 2021
Documentary Film
South Africa,
Hungary
2020
9 minutes
Hungarian
Subtitles: 
German Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing

On a hot June day, the two friends Ádel and Berci are lying on a meadow, looking at the clouds. It’s the summer holidays and they are talking about everything that crosses their minds. Berci has a lot of imagination and is looking forward to the next school year. Ádel, on the other hand, is more anxious and worries. The clouds drift past, as fleeting as the summer.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Kristen van Schie
Cinematographer
Kristen van Schie
Editor
Kristen van Schie
Producer
DocNomads
Sound
Kristen van Schie, Eduardo Saraiva
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To Feather, to Wither

To Feather, to Wither
Hanna Hovitie
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium,
Finland,
Hungary,
Portugal
2020
20 minutes
English captions
Subtitles: 
None

A young taxidermist is fascinated by crows, paying considerate attention to their dead bodies. Her work on the birds is simultaneously a careful study of anatomical connections and a kind of service toward the resurrection of this mythical creature from the realm between life and death. Through detailed, pulsating black-and-white images and a sparingly intense soundtrack, a charged atmosphere unfolds between craftsmanship, imagination and poetry.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Hanna Hovitie
Script
Hanna Hovitie
Cinematographer
Daniel Donato
Editor
Hanna Hovitie
Producer
Hanna Hovitie, Daniel Donato
Co-Producer
Patricia D'Intino
Sound
Bence Kovács-Vajda
Score
Bence Kovács-Vajda