Premiere: FESTIVAL NATION | BEM CINEMA
2025-09-25T18:00:00.000Z
FESTIVAL NATION Screening + Discussion
Sep
25
Schedule
Attila Csizmadia's film about Hungarian festival culture, Festival Country, will be in theaters starting September 18! Following the screening, Claudia Sümeghy will interview the film's cast members, Tamás Kádár, CEO of Sziget, and Levente Szűcs, member of Bohemian Betyars, as well as the film's writer-director and creative producer, Attila Csizmadia.
Venue: Bem Cinema (Budapest, 1027, Margit körút 5.)
Date: 25 September 2025 (Thursday) 20:00
Guests: Tamás Kádár, Sziget company manager, Levente Szűcs, member of Bohemian Betyars, Attila Csizmadia, writer-director and creative producer
Travel with us into a world everyone knows – but no one has ever seen quite like this!
Sziget, VOLT, Balaton Sound, Valley of Arts, Fishing on Orfű, Paloznak Jazz Picnic – iconic festivals that have shaped our summers for decades. Where did they start, and where are they heading? What drives them – passion or business? And what do they mean for different generations?
Dive deep into the Hungarian festival universe and hear from Károly Gerendai, Norbert Lobenwein, Zoltán Fülöp, István Márta and Péter Müller Sziámi about what makes the summer pulse with energy! Party to the biggest hits by Дeva, Beton.Hofi, Sisi, Margaret Island, Blahalouisiana and Pogány Induló. Step backstage and discover the most exciting festival stories of András Lovasi, Halott Pénz, Bagossy Brothers Company, Quimby or Soma Mamagésa!
Music, stories, nostalgia and plenty of humor – in their co-directed film, Attila Csizmadia and Tamás Yvan Topolánszky, in coproduction with Halluci-Nation and JUNO11 Pictures, reveal the human stories behind festivals that have become almost a Hungarian specialty, showing how from dust a sense of freedom could rise.
Ticket price: 2,500 HUF
Tickets are not reserved, seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open approximately 5 minutes before the screening.
Tickets are available:
1) On site on weekdays between 3:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., and on weekends
between 1:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
2) Online: https://cooltix.hu/event/68aee87ddd0f863acc60d95a
Location
Bem Cinema
In January 2016, the 108-year-old Bem Cinema will reopen its doors to the public, in a new way never seen before in Hungary: as a cinema of cult and classic films (no harm!), or as the educated French say (if you know your English): as a "repertory cinema".
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