Budapest International Documentary Film Festival returns: 60 stories of everyday heroes

“There lies a film within you too,” smiles György Cserhalmi from the BIDF poster. Between 25th January and 2nd February 2025, the 11th Budapest International Documentary Film Festival, BIDF, will open with this slogan.

60 festival films tell us about ourselves, their stories are similar to our stories, we, who are the everyday heroes of our own lives, with our everyday struggles for the realisation of our everyday desires, in our everyday families, held captive by our ever-present everyday fears. The themes of both the competition and out-of-competition sections of the festival are organised around these ideas.

In the last days of January in Budapest (Cinema City Mammut) and 10 other cities (Békéscsaba, Debrecen, Eger, Jászberény, Kecskemét, Pécs, Szeged, Székesfehérvár, Szombathely, Veszprém), nearly 200 screenings of 60 films await their audiences once again. Oscar-winning directors (Daniel Roher: Antidote, Oliver Stone: LULA, the President), the best director of the Cannes Film Festival (Sergej Loznica: Invasion), as well as European and Sundance award-winning film-makers and the most outstanding new films from Hungary, are all included in the program.

BIDF always provides its audience with a real social experience as, after the screenings, they get to meet the invited creators of the world’s most prestigious, multiple award-winning films, talk to them and muse with experts. The prizes, as ever, are awarded by a prestigious international jury of 30 people.

Ticket sales start two weeks before Christmas, on December 10th.

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