Verzio Film Festival Pécs
This year marks the 20th edition of the Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Between 23-26 November, the Apollo in Pécs will host an exceptionally rich programme of films selected by the curatorial board of the cinema － a prominent film festival and a cinematic impression of our current world. The key question this year is: Where are we going?
Tickets for Vezió are available at HUF 1,000, with no other discounts available for the festival.
23.11.23.
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17:30 Three Short Films - Anna Gyimesi: Falling '16, Lia Lőrinczy: Who I Could Possibly Be '29, Zsófia Paczolay: Budapest Silo '24
19:00 I won't die - Hungarian documentary, 92 min, 2023, r: Dér Asia
After the film we will talk about life and death. Questions of quantity and quality. Taboos. Fear, pain, limits and possibilities. Our guests are Ágnes Csikós, palliative doctor, president of the Pécs-Baranya Hospice Foundation, and Judit Csonka, psychotherapist and cancer survivor. The discussion will be moderated by psychotherapist Amaryl Árkovits.
19:30 Is There Anybody Out There? - English documentary, 87 min, 2023, r: Ella Glendining
23.11.24.
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17:15 Fairy Garden - Hungarian-Croatian-Romanian documentary, 82 min, 2023, r: Gergő Somogyvári
19:00 Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods - French-Greek documentary, 91 min, 2023, dir: Angelos Rallis
After the screening, two lecturers of the Department of Political Science and International Studies of the PTE BTK, Dr. Viktor Glied, historian-politologist and Dr. László Kákai, political scientist-sociologist, will discuss climate refugees, climate change and water.
20:00 The Dmitriev Affair - Dutch documentary, 95 min, 2023, r: Jessica Gorter
23.11.25.
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17:00 Against the Tide - Indian-French documentary, 97 min, 2023, r: Sarvnik Kaur
19:00 Women behind the wheel - English documentary, 96 min, 2022, r: Hannah Congdon, Catherine Haigh
The film will be introduced by Subas Ali, Phd student of the joint programme "Social Representation, Culture and Communication" at PTE and Sapienza University of Rome. The screening will be followed by a round table discussion with the following participants: Eszter Katus, investigative journalist, Éva Máté, adjunct professor at the Department of Social Geography and Urban Studies, PTE TTK, and András Nyirati, director of the Foundation "Emberség Erejével". Moderator: Kata Murányi, Department of Political Science and International Studies, PTE BTK. The event was jointly organised by the Foundation "Emberség Erejével" and Cinema Apollo.
19:30 Free Money - American-Kenyan documentary, 75 min, 2022, r: Sam Soko, Lauren DeFilippo
23.11.26.
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17:30 Songs of Earth - Norwegian documentary, 90 min, 2023, r: Margreth Olin
19:30 Apolonia, Apolonia - Danish-Polish documentary, 116 min, 2022, r: Lea Glob
Introduction by Katalin Aknai - PTE Faculty of Arts, Department of Art History