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
Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.
Events
16.02.2025
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