BuSho Beyond Borders
Following the announcement of the 21st BuSho official selection, the screening programme will be published shortly, but of course events continue to take place at home and abroad.
In defiance of the world news, we returned to Moscow Film School in May, following the recent screening in Ekaterinburg, with an online audience meeting and a Hungarian selection, where Annabella Schnabel will answer questions from the local student community.
This Örkény adaptation has also been invited by our Italian friends to the Adriatica Film Festival’s competition programme in early June, together with Péter Karácsony’s latest short film, ‘The Low and Mighty’. From Bulgaria, Нели Димова reports on the Sofia (7th) BuSho presentation at the end of February:
“At the beginning of the screening, Szandra Miskédi, the head of the Institute, welcomed the audience and introduced Associate Professor Ivan Ivanov as a Bulgarian expert on Hungarian cinema. As the associate professor said, this is the seventh time this year that a selection of the best Hungarian short films from BuSho will be screened in Bulgaria with the help and support of the festival. He said that there was no documentary at the screening, but ‘Hassan’, a short fictional film based on real events, could be considered a documentary as well. He also pointed out that absurdism is strongly present in the films, which is a very specific line in Hungarian cinema. In Satan, the situation is absurd and the film can be seen as an anti-utopia.
On the subject of animated films, he noted that on the occasion of last year’s Hungarian Film Day, we screened ‘The Four Souls of Kojot’ in Sofia and that ‘Children of the Bird’ was a mini version of it. ‘The Low and Mighty’ put corruption and political games in the spotlight. As for the experimental film, he said that it needed no explanation, it was pure cinema, you either like it or not. These were the broad and brief words that were spoken to the audience.”
Of course, screenings are being organised all the time with our other permanent partners, including Istanbul and Beijing.