Back in the Swing
With the winter break following the closure of the 20th festival, entries for the BuSho festival have been open again since 1 December and we are pleased to report that it is business as usual. And after the “guilt-ridden dieting resolutions” following the holidays, we are back in full swing and fortunately the results are visible.
The Polish ZOOM Festival announced that 2 animation films and 2 fiction films were selected for competition out of the Hungarian Bestof package of BuSho. And recently, the news came from Tampere that BuSho free waiver holder Luca Tóth’s ‘Vegan Mayo’ will compete at their festival in March.
At the end of February, the usual film school presentation takes place in Sofia organised by the Liszt Institute. The BuSho presentation in the Moscow Film School is in preparation and in Ekaterinburg has already taken place.
From 1-5 December 2024, Ekaterinburg hosted the 21st KinoProba Festival, the city’s only international film event, which screened the Hungarian competition films of the BuSho (Budapest Short) Film Festival on 4 December at the sold-out Dom Kino cinema.
And of course, what is certain to follow, as local subtitles are slowly being prepared for them, are Turkish and then Chinese screenings in several cities and locations in collaboration with local filmmakers.
As for the domestic organisation, one of the most important dates of the year is coming up, the 21st BuSho deadline for entries: 1 March 2025, 12:00 CET!