The only human rights documentary film festival in Hungary, Verzio, is organized by Verzio Film Foundation and Open Society Archives since 2004.
Besides showcasing some of the most recent documentaries in the field of human rights, Verzio - through its workshops, retrospectives and student screenings - works towards creating a forum where films are examined creatively and critically. Verzio is a bilingual event (Hungarian-English). - announces the festival facebook page.Screenings will take place at Toldi, Művész, Cirkó-Gejzír, Örökmozgó cinemas and also at OSA Archives and the French Institute.The audience can see 62 films from 25 different countries between the 5zh and 10th of November.
Oksana Sarkisova, the festival director invites you to see “ a colorful collective memory mosaic which exemplifies a diversity of ways and means of telling stories. “.
According to István Révai, director of OSA Archívum and co-organiser of the festival: “
We are slowly getting used to the situation where we live in the middle of an ongoing reality-show, a permanent documentary, where everything and anything happens and can happen in front of our eyes in real time.”
see the festival page on http://www.verzio.org
source: MTI, the Hungarian news agency