BIDF 2024: Hungary’s most popular international film festival starts in a few days

Budapest International Documentary Festival (BIDF) organizes and hosts the competition of award-winning, feature-length movies for the 10th time.

What are the topics discussed in some of the most critically acclaimed films in the world that propose to depict reality in a deeply artistic way?

„Your country” – for which you fight if need be.

„Your fight” – to accomplish your desires.

„Your desire” – so that you do not need to hide your beliefs.

„Your belief” – the thing you do not want to hide as a secret.

„Your secret” – your country…

Two of the featured films are current candidates for an Oscar: Four Daughters (France, Tunisia, Germany, and Saudi Arabia) and In the Rearview (Poland, France and Ukraine). 

Four Daughters – trailer:

In the Rearview – trailer:

In 6 sections, 28 international jury members are going to vote for 45 competing films. Among others, the jury has Mette Hoffmann Meyer, Marcin Malatynski, Svetoslav Draganov, Ingrid Mayerova, Márta Sebestyén, and Péter Geszti among their members.

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How do Yakuts fight the Siberian dragon (wildfires)? How did stuntwomen imagine their work? What does the football team of an Icelandic village want? What is the secret behind the sudden appearance of a sibling buried fifty years ago? How does one’s country get stolen?

70 answers, 70 films, 200 screenings in 11 cities.

After the screenings, the audience will be invited to meet and talk with the artists.

All films at the Budapest International Documentary Film Festival can be read with English subtitles.

BIDF 2024: Venues and dates

• between 27 January and 4 February;
• in the Cinema City Mammut in Budapest and 10 cities across Hungary.

For more information, please visit the BIDF 2024 official webpage HERE.