20th BuSho Official Selecion
The long-awaited moment has arrived when the official selection for the 20th anniversary BuSho Film Festival is revealed. Once again, fiction, animation and experimental films under 30 minutes in length and in the usual categories will compete in this year’s festival.
As in previous years, we have introduced some minor changes to the way the festival is run. A “pre-jury” of 11 people selected 16 hours of films from the nearly 1000 films entered, from which a “post-pre-jury” of 3 people decided on the 12 hours of short films that would be selected. This year’s festival will thus be screening these films in 9 blocks of around 80 minutes from 3 to 8 September at the Puskin Cinema, Budapest.
Looking at the statistics for the competition programme, 48 of the 1000 submissions were selected for this year’s BuSho, with 31 fiction, 10 animation and 7 experimental films.
A total of 19 countries are represented, with entries from all over the world, including Canada, USA, Argentina, Australia, Iran, Iceland, but of course there are also short films from all over Europe, such as Norway, Finland, Poland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Italy.
The largest number of films were selected from Hungarians, with one entry in each block, i.e. 9 entries. The French are next with 6 films. Spain, Germany and Russia are third on the imaginary podium with 4 films.
/Satan directed by Marcell Belső, Airon Csihar/
The Hungarian fiction films include “Satan” directed by Marcell Belső and Airon Csihar, Kálmán Nagy’s “The Other End of the Street”, which was nominated at last year’s Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Last year’s awarded director Péter Karácsony’s latest film ” The Low and Mighty”, Hunor Demeter’s “Frosting” and Shabaaz Sayyad Mahammad’s “Hassan”. The Hungarian animated films in the competition are Anita Kühnel-Szabó’s “Your Dad”, Júlia Tudisco’s “The Children of the Bird” and Luca Tóth’s “Vegan Mayo”. Last but not least, Annabella Schnabel’s experimental film “The Triptych of the Keeper” will also compete in Hungary.
/Children of the Bird directed by Júlia Tudisco/
Among the international competition films, it is worth mentioning Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter’s “Fár”, Anna Llargués’ “Crack of Dawn” and Pato Martinez and Francisco Canton’s “Nada de Todo Esto”, all three of which were nominated for the Best Short Film award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Also in the running are Stephen Vuillemin’s “A Kind of Testament”, which was nominated for Best Short Film at last year’s Berlinale, and Selin Oksuzoglu’s “Bye Bye Turtle”, which was among the contenders at this year’s Berlinale. Ruwan Heggelman’s experimental horror film “Gnomes” is also in the programme, winning Best Film at the Sitges International Film Festival, among other prizes.
Congratulations to all the shortlisted filmmakers, the detailed competition programme is available HERE.
All selected films’ screening copies must be uploaded until 1 June and on 15 June we will publish the detailed screening programme in blocks, which will be screened at the Puskin Cinema from 3-8 September at the jubilee 20th BuSho International Short Film Festival.