ASIA DÉR

Director, founder and board member of MADOKE (Hung
Jury of 2023

She graduated as a documentary director at the Docnomads training at the University of Theatre and Film Arts. Her diploma film was nominated for the best short film in the Hungarian Film Week in 2016. Now she takes part in DLA education, her research focuses on the effects of the psychological and dramaturgical relationship of the director and actors in documentaries. Her first documentary, Her Mothers, premiered at the HotDocs film festival in Canada and was later screened at around 30 international festivals, winning several awards. Her film about the Hungarian poet Lajos Kassák, Howling like we do, was awarded Best Director at the Film Arte Festival in Berlin. Her latest film, I Won't Die, will be screened in cinemas in Hungary from January 2024.