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
Annette Gjerde-Hansen, Norwegian President of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes 2026, writes about the background of the jury's decision to award Cristian Mungiu's "Fjord" with their prize.
In his retrospect of the festival, Peter Paul Huth highlights, above all, the films in the Cannes Classics series.
Events
16.02.2025
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