Csaba Szekeres (*1968) is a film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and editor. After earning a liberal arts degree, he undertook several study trips to Paris between 1993 and 1996 to research contemporary French theatre. He received the Pál Schiffer Award for his film Vortex (2010), and his film Ever (2019) has won awards at festivals around the world, including Moscow and Los Angeles. He has taught filmmaking and screenwriting at several Hungarian universities and has lectured on screenwriting in Paris. He currently teaches at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. As a Hungarian Academy of Arts scholarship holder, he studied the relationship between film and narrative, and his latest study on the fractal structure of narrative has been published.
Film director
Country of origin
Hungary
Festivals
Current issues
Mythical figures and images from the worlds of culture, sport and politics formed the subject matter of some of the films screened at DocFest Sheffield 2026. Peter Paul Huth explores them.
The extent to which the documentary film has evolved was once again evident this year at DocFest Sheffield (10–15 June 2026). The classic ideal of Direct Cinema or Cinéma Vérité has given way to a wide variety of cinematic possibilities. Report by Peter Paul Huth.
Events
16.02.2025
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