SPRING FEVER
As we reported earlier, the registration period for the 20th BuSho Festival is now closed, the pre-jury is now working hard and the announcement of the competition program will arrive on Labour Day.
In the meantime, the BuSho team will not be idle as we will be rowing in international waters again shortly with last year’s Hungarian short films.
At the end of February, the screening of the best Hungarian films delegated from the 19th Busho Film Festival was successfully held again in Sofia. The enthusiastic staff of the Bulgarian Liszt Institute are preparing another screening for April with the TaM Art Association in Veliko Tarnovo, not only the old capital of Bulgaria but also a very attractive city in terms of architecture and nature, with a very lively university life.
At the beginning of March, our old Polish partner, the ZOOM festival, selected some of our delegates, or rather a large delegation, as they invited 3 animations to participate, in addition to 3 fiction films, Dániel Füzes: Hogy ne győzzünk, Anna Gyimesi: Affrikáta and Bianka Szelestey: Pragma. Domonkos Erhardt’s From The Corner of My Eyes and Daniel Bárány’s Dániel Vacsora (Dinner) are competing alongside Balázs Turai’s Amok.
We’ll soon be showing up in Istanbul with a selection including The Sunday Kidnapping directed by Péter Karácsony, Zénó Mira’s Fox Tossing, and last year’s Hungarian Cinema Award nominee Café Marylin in the Panorama section of the IFSAK festival.
We’re also in the planning stages for a screening near Porto and one in Pescara, as well as another one in Beijing in May at the UCCA Center.
In addition, we’re preparing for further Turkish venues, with a visit to Aksanat in May and one at Izmir in the autumn.
There are also plans to present Hungarian shorts in Germany in 3 locations, on the Stuttgart – Düsseldorf – Munich axis, and then, of course, we will be preparing for the jubilee festival and the summer workshops as well.