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Film director and screenwriter
Country of origin
Hungary

Balázs Szövényi-Lux (*1990) is a film director and screenwriter. He has been making films since childhood. He graduated from Pázmány University and then Edinburgh College of Art. He was a juror at children's film festivals and a former jury member at the BUSHO Festival. He wrote reviews for Kortárs Online magazine for six years. His short film "Katapult" won the best short film award at the Chicago Children's Film Festival. His feature debut, "The First Two", was released last year, which has won numerous awards since , and ended up at HBO. He is looking for the tiny vibrations of the Infinite. He was a volunteer in the Taizé community, and this has determined his relationship with people and religion ever since.

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The quality of the films in competition in TIFF24, the Transilvania International Film Festival in Cuj-Napoca, was outstanding and impressed the ecumenical jury. The festival focusses on debuts of filmmakers or second films.
Marie Starck, complemented by Dietmar Adler, reports about a symposium at Judson Memorial Church, New York, which was supported by INTERFILM

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2

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