The selection jury, comprised of the young filmmakers Dániel Deák, Zoltán Gergely, Igor Buharov, László Rimóczi and Simon Szabó, has chosen 90 shorts to compete at this year's festival, including 14 from Hungary. They picked the films from 620 submitted from 61 countries. Another 130 films were chosen to be shown outside of the competition.
Among the films on the programme are world premieres as well as shorts that have won numerous awards on the festival circuit. In the competition is the Hungarian director Géza M. Tóth's Ergo and Russian director Alexei Alexeev's film KJFG No. 5, which recently won a SACEM Award in Annecy.
Almost 40 foreign directors will personally bring their films to Budapest for BuSho.
The contest jury will include Claudia Lehman, the German nuclear physicist whose filmmaking hobby won her a prize at last year's Berlinale; Tsanko Vasilev, a television filmmaker from Bulgaria; Carlos Guimares, the Brazilian film critic; Wolfgang Leis, who has been a jury member since BuSho's inception; and Anita Libor, a critic and the editor of filmhu.
BuSho competition films will be screened at the Vörösmarty Cinema this year. Other screenings, as well as workshops and concerts, will take place at the newly opened DocuArt Kocsiszín. In addition to the venues in Budapest, the cities of Szeged, Szolnok and Szombathely will also participate in the programme.
BuSho will open at the Vörösmarty Cinema at 7pm on September 19.
