WORKS
FEATURE FILMS
Matchframe Productions, 92 mins, 2023.
Gabor is a successful, confident gallery owner, part of the artist high society of Budapest. He is always busy, surrounded by many people, constantly marching towards higher and higher goals. A hurtful breakup and the diagnosis of a fatal illness gives him a chance to revise his values and choices. But what is the cost of success and strength after all?
Through Gabor’s intimate journey the film explores the existential struggles of the modern world.
FESTIVALS:
39th Warsaw International Filmestival
20th Verzio International Human Rights Filmfestival
HOWLING LIKE WE DO
(A MAGUNK MÓDJÁRA ÜVÖLTENI)
Kerekes Péter film, Eclipse film, 97 mins, 2022
Lajos Kassák was a self-educated working-class poet, a father of Hungarian Avant-garde, leftist thinker who believed in the revolutionary power of art.
The film confronts Kassák's revolutionary, deeply human dilemmas with contemporary Hungarian and Slovak artists searching for their place in the radicalising eastern european political climate. Past and present meets, collides and shows eyes opening parallelities through an exciting documentary journey.
AWARDS:
2023. Film Arte Festival, Berlin - Best director
2023. Pápa International History film festival - Best Original music
2023. Košice International Film Festival - Best feature length documentary
2023. Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Special mention
Co-directed with Sári Haragonics
Campfilm, HBO Europe, Matchframe Productions, 75 mins, 2020.
As Hungary’s political climate becomes increasingly radicalized, Virág, a former green politician, loses faith in the democratic parliament of Hungary and retires from politics. She and her musician partner Nóra decide to adopt a child and focus on building a family together. With a sensitive lens and close access, directors Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics follow the two women through their long and ultimately successful adoption process to bring home their young daughter. But tensions begin to rise between the two as Virág thrives in her role as a mother and Nóra struggles to find her place within the family. As the rising tides of right wing propaganda in Hungary begin to overflow into their family, their lives hit a boiling point and they must face the difficult decision of whether to leave their country behind.
AWARDS:
2021. CROSSING EUROPE festival Linz - Social Awareness Award – Best Documentary
2021. Moscow International Documentary Film Festival
Best Feature Documentray and Best Editing
26th Chéries-Chéris LMBTQ Film Festival, Paris
Main Jury Prize
6th Festival de Cine LGTBI
Audience Award // Special mention by the grand jury and the student jury
BURDENED BY THE PAST
(VISSSZAHÚZ A MÚLT)
Matchframe Production, 70 mins, 2017.
Judit Ember was an artist and sociologist. Her childhood experiences made her a sensitive person who grasps the complexity of social conditions in an emphatic way, yet her films were banned from screening in socialist Hungary and did not get to be seen by broad audiences. Her body of work transpires a strong personality who takes an unaccustomed path, challenges status quo, and was deeply concerned with human suffering. The film is seeking an answer to a difficult question: what is the price of artistic truth?
FESTIVALS:
2018. Hungarian Filmweek, nominated for the best
documentary
2017. Verzió International Human Rights Filmfestival,
2017. Classical Film Marathon, Corvin Cinema
WORKS
SHORT FILMS
LETTERS FROM MOM (LÍSTY ODA MAMI)
DOCNOMADS, 11 mins, 2015.
A young, pregnant girl writes a diary. She addresses her future child, herself and her far away family. Fears, doubts and serenity come up. 'Letters from Mom' is an exploration about the time spent in the womb. How does this mysterious connection between the mother and the baby work?
FESTIVALS
Nominated for the best short film, Hungarian FilmWeek, 2016.
East Silver Market, Jihlava, 2015.
Montevideo Student film festival, 2015.
Cronograf film festival, Moldova, 2015.
FIDE Brasil
FIDE Paris
Mediawave International film festival, 2015.
Strangloscope experimental film festival
BUDOKU - Budapest Documentary film festival
61st Hungarian Indipendent film festival
THE LADY OF THE ISLAND (A DONA DA ILHA)
DOCNOMADS, 25 mins, 2015.
"Everyone's life is a constant change in space and time: from adolescent to young adult, then to middle age etc. In order not to let our personality fall into pieces, we have to constantly integrate these changes." (Janos hay)
Mariapaola first traveled around the world, then went to Cannes with her films, finally became a wellknown businesswomen. Now she retired to a small island in the South of Portugal.
She has everything. Still she is lonely.
FESTIVALS
Finnougric Filmfestival, Estonia, 2016
Hungarian Film Week, 2016
FIDE Paris, 2016.
FIDE Brasil, 2015.
