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Have you ever dreamed of crossing the threshold of the oh-so-mysterious and so-hard-to-enter world of film-makers? Aye, so have we. That’s why we decided to bring you a ground-breaking debut, lovely FUNZINE friends: the FUNZINE CineFest Trip, at The CineFest International Festival of Young Filmmakers, Miskolc, between September 18th and 20th!

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Cafébabel were at Sziget Festival again - 2009 report

By Judit Révész

Our first day on the Sziget Festival (14th August) didn’t begin very well. When we arrived, it started to rain and the island seemed to be deserted. In addition, our Brunch Talk guest, Krisztián Grecsó (writer) had to excuse himself from coming, because he got ill. Fine, good start. However, we didn’t give up the hope that we can make something good out of that Friday, which seemed to be as unlucky as a Friday 13. And we were right, the sun shone out and the Cafebabel.com pavilion became more and more popular – especially, as we had suspected, the little yellow ‘fishing pool’. Finally we had so many visitors, that by evening we ran out of the little gifts offered to those completing our quizes and other games (squirt-guns, tent air fresheners, and others) we thought would be enough for the three days.

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Cafebabel.com do Sziget again

The Budapest branch of cafebabel.com will represent the magazine in the biggest open-air summer festival of Europe, the Sziget for the third time in 2009. We will provide different programmes for visitors of the festival in the special corner of the island, called Civil Sziget reserved for civil organisations and NGOs. You can find us there during the weekend, between 14th-16th August.

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Hungary's main film festival (January 29-February 5)

filmweek_logo.jpgJanuary 28, 2008

Some 103 productions will be featured at the annual 39th Hungarian Film Festival opening in Budapest on Tuesday. The week-long festival which ends on February 5, 18 features, 33 documentaries, 3 documentary-style features, 36 experimental and short films and 13 science and education films will be competing in their own categories.

The main competition this year will be for the festival's main feature film prize, the newly renamed Golden Reel.

The international jury of the festival will be chaired by Klaus Eder, General Secretary of the International Federation of Film Critics.

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First EU Shorts film festival to start in Budapest on Thursday

hibernationkis.jpgThe five-day event on November 8-12 will feature 40 films selected from the best shorts shot in Europe over the past few years. The films will be classified into five thematically blocs: one for Hungarian films, two for animations and two for fictions.

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Budapest team in Sziget Festival

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August 11, Saturday

11:00 – 12:00 Brunch with Ági Szalóki (singer)

Moderator: Borbála Balla, Cafebabel.com Budapest

Venue: Civil Playground

August 12, Sunday

11:00 – 12:00 Brunch with Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra (PASO)

Moderator: Veronika Kovács, Cafebabel.com Budapest

Venue: Civil Playground

14:00 – 15:30 Debate on the climate change

Guests:

Moderator: Katharina Kloss, the German editor of Cafebabel.com

The language of the debate: English

Venue: Civil Playground

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