Gellért Kovács has long been writing and speaking about films, but his voice has become really important in the past couple of years, mostly due to his extremely personal Facebook page.
‘I feel good when I can write. What I do on Facebook and what I do in real life are the same: I share my thoughts on films with people. Then, throughout the years, my posts have become more and more personal. For some time now, I have been writing not only about films, but about public issues as well, though most of the time I choose topics that are somehow connected to films.’
Critics’ jury
Gellért Kovács
Imre Szíjártó
Imre Szíjártó is the head of the Film and Media Studies Department of the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University. He specializes in contemporary Central and Eastern European (primarily Polish, Russian and Slovenian) films, and film education. He publishes in film, literary and pedagogy journals, and writes film reviews for the magazine Filmvilág and tiszatajonline.hu.
Lili Mesterházy
Film critic, film journalist. She studied Renaissance English literature at the University in Sofia, then at Columbia University. From 2004, she worked for the culture column at the news portal Index, where she was one of the founders of the newly-launched Cinematrix. From 2005, she wrote on films in the program magazines Pesti Est and Pesti Műsor. Between 2006 and 2015, she worked as a film critic for the film column at the news portal Origo, and until 2022, she was on the staff of the Filmklub podcast. Nowadays, she works for the Budapest Ritmo music- and the Verzió film festivals, and publishes film reviews on the site Revizor.
