BIDF 2025: The country’s most popular international film festival opens soon
Between January 25th and February 2nd 2025, audiences in Budapest, Békéscsaba, Debrecen, Eger, Győr, Jászberény, Kecskemét, Pécs, Szeged, Székesfehérvár, Szombathely and Veszprém can see the latest, multi-award-winning documentaries of recent years, including Oscar hopefuls. After the screenings, audiences can meet the creators or experts of the films’ themes in each city.
BIDF 2025
“There lies a film within you too” – György Cserhalmi conveys this year’s festival motto to viewers from the posters, since every person is the hero of their own life and everyday stories inspire documentary filmmakers worldwide.
Nationwide, across 60 films and 200 screenings, an international jury of 30 people, including Alexandra Borbély, Zsuzsa Koncz, Lajos Nagy Parti, Ferenc Sebő and Bálint Szimler, will judge 6 sections, whilst the student and pensioner juries and the audience themselves, will award a total of ten festival prizes to the creations.
This year, mothers and fathers of young children and those with special educational needs will not be left out of the festival experience either, because while they relax and immerse in culture, their children will be taken care of by young professionals at the Cinema City Mammut movie theatre in Budapest.
A special innovation of the Budapest International Documentary Film Festival is that this year, for the first time, it will give a national audience award based on online voting.
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