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Waiting for the Sun

Kaspar Astrup Schröder - 90

When their father accidently kills a child the two twin sisters and their younger brother are left alone. No relatives want to take care of children with such a shameful back ground. Fortunately, the former prison guard 'Grandma Zhang' founded Sun Village 20 years ago - an orphanage in the outskirts of Beijing for children whose parents are imprisoned for serious crimes. Along with the three newcomers, we follow the lives of six different children in Sun Village, as their destinies cross and they help each other to find new ground in the most difficult time in their lives.

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My Name is Salt

Farida Pacha - 92

The desert extends endlessly - flat, grey, relentless. There is not a tree or blade of grass or rock. But there is one thing in abundance: salt. Salt is everywhere, lying just beneath the cracked, baked surface of the earth. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5000 sq kms of saline desert in India. And for eight months of the year, Chhanabhai and his family live here without water, electricity or provisions - tirelessly extracting salt from this desolate landscape. Under the blinding glare of the sun, they work on the salt fields until large crystals have formed. Their labour is rhythmic, a dance that mirrors the dance of the mirages on the burning horizon. After months of hard work, the salt is ready to be harvested - just before the heavy monsoon rains will come to once again wash their salt fields away.

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Nice People

Karin af Klintberg Anders Helgeson - 96

A group of young men who fled the war in Somalia have ended up in a rural town in Sweden where integration is tough. Something needs to be done. Local entrepreneur Patrik Andersson gets an idea, who not use sport as a bridge to get people closer to each other? The goal: to create the first ever Somali national team in bandy and make it to the World Championship in Siberia. This is a story about racism and fear, but it’s also about bravery and doing something that hasn’t been done before.

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Putin's Witnesses

Vitalij Manszkij - 107

The events of the film begin on December 31, 1999 when Russia was acquainted with its new President. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of the operation “Successor”, as a result of which Russia ended up with the President who still rules the country. The protagonists of the film are Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian nation, as always being a silent witness of its own destiny. Ambassador of the film: Zoltán Lakner (political scientist, deputy editor-in-chief of 168 óra magazine)

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Under the Sun

Vitalij Manszkij - 105

This is a film about the ideal life in an ideal country – North Korea. We see a girl in an ideal school, the daughter of ideal parents, working at ideal factories, living in an ideal apartment in the center of the capital. We can see how much effort the North Korean people have to undertake to make this ideal world work. The girl is being prepared to enter the children’s union to be a part of the ideal society, living in the eternal rays of the sun, the symbol of the great leader of the people, Kim Il-sung.

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The sixth Budapest International Documentary Film Festival (BIDF) opened here on Monday, featuring the best documentaries around the world, including three Oscar-nominated work.

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Pre-Premier Screenings!

Three film screenings and three panel discussions

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