Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival and year-round activities in 2025-26

2026-07-22

This proposal presents our plans for the forthcoming 22nd and 23rd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festivals, as well as Verzió’s year-round activities in-between two festival editions during the period of 24 months, starting in April 2025, until March 2027. The 22nd Verzió will be held between 11 - 30 November 2025 in a hybrid format, bringing approximately 60 documentary films to the cinemas of at least seven Hungarian cities (Budapest, Pécs, Szeged, Kecskemét, Debrecen, Szombathely, Miskolc), as well as presenting them online at the Verziotheque VOD platform. One of the main goals of our project is to establish sustainable and long-standing cooperation with new festival venues in the regions and strengthen the existing cooperation with our regional partners, therefore in November 2026 we will introduce the Festival to at least three new towns in the countryside, in Kaposvár, Nyíregyháza and Székesfehérvár. During both festival editions, ca. 150 screenings, a VR-exhibition, an alternative film poster exhibition, debates and panel talks, masterclasses and workshops will take place with the participation of various stakeholders. The competition programs and out-of-competition thematic sections and panorama programs will give a chance to present a diverse and quality programming. We also wish to present retrospective programs and heritage works, VR films at the Vektor VR exhibition and present excellent examples of docu-fictions, and animated documentaries. Between the 22nd and 23rd Verzió, in the frame of the two years of the project period, we will facilitate at least 100 screenings in both cinemas and at alternative venues, we will organize accompanying events such as discussions and workshops across the country and continue to add new European films to our VOD platform. We will organise thematic screenings with facilitated discussions aimed at high-school and university students in collaboration with the Blinken OSA Archivum.

Hungary

2026-01-01