My Own Body

Katarína Hrašková Peer-to-Peer Film Criticism Workshop on Višegrad Film Forum 2025

Reflection on the student film My Own Body (Katica Kozma, 2024)

If one were to define an eating disorder based on sound, they would most likely know or at least imagine how bulimia or binge eating sounds. But what about anorexia? What does the absence of food and the act of eating sound like? Hungarian student director Katica Kozma presents her audience with multiple scenes of a young anorexic man, Laci, gulping down several bottles of water and, a few scen...

Olga Yudkina Peer-to-Peer Film Criticism Workshop on Višegrad Film Forum 2025

Country Dearest. A Reflection on Young Hungarian Cinema

A government is to a nation what a parent is to a child. This idea has been a useful tool for propaganda throughout time and space, especially during war times. A strong parental figure can provide guidance, but the protecting hand can easily become the one that strangles. The new generation of Hungarian directors who presented their works in the student programme at the VFF festival is interes...

Eszter Knopp Peer-to-Peer Film Criticism Workshop on Višegrad Film Forum 2025

Red Nostalgia – Vignettes of un-lived times

Visegrad Film Forum offers a rare opportunity for film universities from the CEE region to come together and showcase their students’ work. This occasion offers not only a comparison of the films themselves and the production culture of their host institutions and countries but also a platform to share and compare resources, pedagogical approaches and themes that interest the next generation of...