Lakatos Miska’s Documentary at the 23rd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
14/11/2026 12:02 AM

The 23rd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will take place from November 16 to 25, 2026, in Budapest and eight other cities across Hungary. This year's programme features more than 80 documentaries, including a new film by Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă, as well as the first feature-length film by Stillz (director of music videos for Bad Bunny and Rosalía). The festival selection places particular emphasis on documentaries addressing human rights, social inequalities and the situation of minority communities, examining contemporary social realities through individual stories and collective experiences.

The festival's Romakép section presents contemporary films alongside significant works from the history of Hungarian documentary filmmaking. The selection also includes a 2024 documentary by Lakatos Miska, which explores questions of identity, community and self-representation through portraits of six Roma people of different ages and life experiences from the Cristuru Secuiesc region. Through the protagonists' personal stories, the film portrays the diversity of Roma identity while consciously seeking to avoid the stereotypes frequently found in documentaries about Roma communities.

The documentary will be screened on Thursday, November 19, at 8:00 PM in the Chaplin Hall of Művész Cinema in Budapest, and on Friday, November 20, at 5:00 PM at the Foton Audiovisual Center in Veszprém. Both screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with the director.

The full festival programme and the film's detailed information are available on the official Verzió website.