Verzió Vienna Film Festival

From April 20-22, 2023, Verzió, in cooperation with Belvedere 21, Open Society University Network (OSUN), Community Engagement Office, and the Visual Studies Platform at CEU, will present highlights from the latest Verzió Film Festival in Budapest to the CEU community and broader public in Vienna. Verzió Vienna features seven powerful documentaries and several masterclasses. An additional outreach event, the “alternative posters” exhibition, will highlight creative works by graphic design students from Budapest Metropolitan University.

We believe the new partnerships and connections established during Verzió Vienna will prove lasting, and contribute to foregrounding the medium of creative documentary as an engaging way to learn about the world and empower through moving human stories.

Opening Ceremony: April 20, 6 p.m., Belvedere 21, Blickle Kino
Welcome speech by Shalini Randeria, CEU President and Rector
Opening Film: Away

Alternative Film Poster Exhibition:

Exhibition opening with small reception: April 11, 5:40 p.m. CEU Cafeteria

The posters on display are works produced by the Budapest Metropolitan University’s (METU) graphic design MA students under the mentorship of Krzysztof Ducki and Veronika Kovács. They were made in cooperation with the Verzio Film Festival, which invited the students to make their own, “alternative” versions of film posters based on their own creative response to the films.

The initiative is part of the UniVerzió program which invites university students to dive into the world of creative documentary films. The graphic design students freely chose the films from the programme of Verzio in 2022; their diverse approaches to poster creation highlight both the impressive creativity of the students and the festival’s rich programme. These graphic works offer new perspectives on the films, inviting the visitors to explore the associative and laconic expressivity of the genre, and raise curiosity about the films. The colorful, multifaceted range of posters communicates the vibrant festival mood and brings the festival highlights to the attention of the CEU Vienna community.

Exhibiting artists: Emese Fekete, Ágnes Kapitány-Szabó, András László Péter, Krisztina Román, Enikő Falcsik, Lili Kláben, Vivien Oroslán, Gábriel Kristyák, Virág Dobó, Júlia Varga, Diána Horváth, Noémi Böröcz, Zsófia Hajdú, Alicia Csizmár

Dates and venue of the screenings: April 20–22 , 2023, Belvedere 21, Blickle Kino
(Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien, Austria)

SCREENING SCHEDULE:

20 April 6 p.m. Away + Q&A
20 April 7:15 p.m. Opening reception
20 April 8:30 p.m. The Killing of a Journalist + online Q&A
21 April 6 p.m. f@ck this job
21 April 8 p.m. Nelly and Nadine + Q&A
22 April 4 p.m. KIM + masterclass
22 April 6:30 p.m. Boney Piles + online Q&A
22 April 8:30 p.m. All that Breathes

SCHEDULE OF THE MASTERCLASSES:

21 April
4 p.m.

Family Secrets:Using archives to tell the story of a Holocaust survivor.
Masterclass by Magnus Gertten, filmmaker, director of Nelly & Nadine (2022) Central European University, Quellenstraße 51, 1100 Wien
22 April 4 p.m. Working with a vulnerable protagonist: The making of KIM. Masterclass by Erika Kapronczai Belvedere 21, Blickle Kino Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien
Family Secrets: Using archives to tell the story of a Holocaust survivor
Masterclass by Magnus Gertten, filmmaker, director of Nelly & Nadine (2022)

Magnus Gertten is an award-winning director from Malmö, Sweden. Among his latest docs are the investigating of an archive film reel in Every Face Has a Name (2015), the football doc Becoming Zlatan (2016), the human rights doc Only the Devil Lives without Hope (2020) and the love story of Nelly & Nadine, which premiered at Berlinale in 2022. Nelly & Nadine has so far been screened at more than 100 international film festivals and won 22 awards. Magnus Gertten’s documentaries are character-driven, often made in an intimate style and with a powerful emotional narrative. He has a strong passion for human stories, music and modern history. In many of his films Magnus has been working with archive footage. At the masterclass, Magnus Gertten will discuss the research and making of Nelly & Nadine and his earlier films that involve the use of family archives, newsreels and survivor’s testimonies.

Working with a vulnerable protagonist: The making of KIM
Masterclass by Erika Kapronczai, director of KIM (2022)

Erika Kapronczai graduated from the University of Pécs with a degree in aesthetics, then from the University of Theatre and Film Arts with a degree in film directing. She is co-founder and creative producer of the international audiovisual dream collection DREAMPIRE. In addition to directing short feature films (Well under the Sun; Threesome), she also produces documentaries and portraits (Dreampire; Sajdik; Kim; F - The Man with the Antenna). She is currently working on her first feature film and is supporting first feature projects as a creative producer, and teaches dramaturgy in the Budapest Metropolitan University. The masterclass focuses on the process of working with the private archive of her film’s protagonist, Kim Corbisier, a talented emerging artist and an enigmatic personality, whose struggle with family traumas and addiction cut her life short at 27, leaving behind a powerful artworks and intimate archival footage. She will also share the considerations behind the focus of the film, the structure, and further moral and legal issues emerged during the film making process, as well as the challenges and dilemmas of the role and responsibility of being a filmmaker and a human being at the same time.