Exciting Hungarian Films In The Budoku Film Festival

50 new films – including Hungarian ones – could be seen at the Budapest Documentary Film Festival (Budoku) this year. The festival event will be held in Cinema Toldi and in Art Cinemas between 6th and 11th May – kulturpart.hu reported.

Budoku Film Festival is unique because the audience could watch all those 28 films which have already been awarded in other international festivals. Moreover, eleven Hungarian feature-length films and 7 Hungarian short films participate in the festival program and compete for the prizes of the international jury as well as the jury of Eötvös Loránd University and also for the Audience Award. During the festival programs workshops, concerts and several free programs will also be held.

The film Rainforest Song opens the festival on the 6th May. The film was awarded with the IDFA prize – the most prestigious prize – in Amsterdam in 2013. The main character of the film is Louis Sarno who came back to New York with his son to show the jungle he had lived together with native Pygmies for several decades.

During the festival all films will be displayed in two cinemas and in 3 different sections. According to the kulturpart.hu website, these sections represent the topics filmmakers were interested in last year. Actually, the films in the first section called The Art of Rebellion examined what kind of forms of resistance – peaceful or violent – were developed by the civil society against the repressive power. Films in the section of Border of Civilization draw attention to the contrast between civilization and nature, like in the movie called Leviathán that has no text. Moreover, films in this section also show people’s reactions to these phenomena.

The Dock ‘n’ roll is the last section which shows films about artists who had a great effect on their musical genre. The film called Beware of Mr. Baker! is about the life of the musician Ginger Baker, while the 20.000 days on Earth is a film about Nick Cave. Last, but not least, the audience could also see a wide international selection of films – ranging from Chile, India and Iran to the developed countries – as part of the International Panorama Program. These films cover the most interesting and current issues.