At the award ceremony of the 20th edition of the Verzio Human Rights Interntonal Film Festival happening in Budapest from November 22nd until 29th, our film “Snajka: Diary of Expectations” by Tea Vidović Dalipi won the Doc Future Award, an award for the best debut documentary, while our co-production, the Hungarian “Fairy Garden” by Gergő Somogyvári took an award as the best in the Hungarian competition as well as Audience Award. “Snajka” was screened in the program ‘Doc Future Student and Debut Competition’ along with nine other films from Canada, Hungary, Switzerland, Myanmar, France, Spain, Romania, and UK. The jury, Johanna von Websky, Floris Palman and Dániel Deák, explained their decision like this: “Above all, the film is a journey of a loving couple finding ways to overcome the challenges of intercultural marriage; with them, the audience learns about the struggle against prejudices, racism and discrimination. While the film unfolds, with the daughter growing up, different layers of identity are being discovered and displayed. This is done in an honest and careful way, at times vulnerable, but also strong, courageous and engaging. Everyday concerns, common to every marriage, are organically related, though excellent editing, to broader social issues, in which regard this film is testimony to tolerance, the will to learn and to communicate, and to look ahead. As such, the jury finds this film a highly important contribution to intercultural dialogues, and an original form of collective learning.” The whole text is available HERE. The jury of the ‘Hungarian competition’, Anna Petrus, Natalia Libet and Gyula Gazdag, “Fairy Garden” awarded as “the film that deals with a subject that is sensitive in many aspects, that focuses on a main character who is brave and is holding on to her dreams, and that is controversial because of the actual situation of homelessness and gender diversity in Hungary”.
