Verzió IHRDFF opens today, 11 November, under the theme “We Exist Together” (11–19 Nov across Hungary; online 20–30 Nov), premiering Coexistence, My Ass! and unveiling a 49-film, 11-section programme spanning Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Iraq, and beyond. Our editor-in-chief is serving on the festival jury, and our industry editor is tutoring the Young Critics Workshop. DocPro runs 12–16 Nov with a new MADOKE collaboration—five days of masterclasses, workshops, and public showcases that connect makers, students, and audiences—turning Budapest into an open forum.
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Films
9-Month Contract
Director: Ketevan Vashagashvili
It’s not just Georgia where are women trying to find a way out of social misery through surrogacy.
Coexistence, My Ass!
Director: Amber Fares
Noam Shuster Eliassi’s path from UN hopeful to fearless comedian, testing taboos and hope between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
Cuba & Alaska
Director: Yegor Troyanovsky
Laughing in the face of death, the two heroines of journalist-turned-filmmaker Yegor Troyanovsky’s debut documentary Cuba & Alaska pitch viewers into the agony and ecstasy of Ukraine’s frontlines.
Cutting Through Rocks
Director: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
In a conservative Iranian village, one divorced woman’s political rise sparks fierce resistance, gendered repression, and bold feminist defiance.
Flophouse America
Director: Monica Strømdahl
Inside one motel room an intimate portrait of American poverty unfolds.
Immortals
Director: Maja Tschumi
Three voices seek identity and connection as Baghdad emerges as a living character shaped by politics and patriarchy.
Militantropos
Director: Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorleva, Simon Moskovyi
From mass graves to choral singing, images traverse Ukraine’s landscapes, questioning identity while war normalises behaviours unimaginable.
Only on Earth
Director: Robin Petré
Robin Petré’s cinematically sprawling Only on Earth journeys deep into southern Galicia as wildfires rage on.
The Helsinki Effect
Director: Arthur Franck
With a gently satirical outer wrapping and a deadly serious inner core, Arthur Franck’s account of the seminal Helsinki Agreement of 1975—The Helsinki Effect—demonstrates just how historic a diplomatic process that was at the time seen as tedious and irrelevant really was.
The Long Road to the Director’s Chair
Director: Vibeke Løkkeberg
Restored 1973 footage from Berlin’s Women’s Film Seminar amplifies women’s voices on authorship abortion rights and power still urgent in today’s media.
The Propagandist
Director: Luuk Bouwman
The rise and fall of a filmmaker who reshaped Dutch cinema by serving Nazi propaganda during World War II.
With Hasan in Gaza
Director: Jamal Aljafari
A 2001 MiniDV journey across the Gaza Strip captures quiet daily life under occupation while hinting at looming catastrophe and the resilience of its people.