WELCOME

Welcome to the website of the  Pápa International Historical Film Festival!

It is a great pleasure
to us that You have visited us, and we hope that we will host as many film professionals as possible.
Since the main aim of our festival is not only to distribute awards – of course, this is the most
beautiful task – but rather to make film professionals, directors, writers, producers get to know each
other from all over the world. From every continent!
What do we mean by ‘historical film’? Films which are related to events and periods already
completed in history. Topics can depict any period, event from the antiquity until the 20 th century.
Periods of human history which our children only know from schoolbooks, literary works. Among
these, Cleopatra’s story can take part, or a key experience of the 20 th century, the Communism, or
anything else.

In the category of ‘Feature Film’, we expect the so-called traditional historical films. But we also start
a category of ‘Experimental Film’, as we also would like to receive some films which do not have a
traditional approach to the historical topic, not only ones which were shot from a realistic point of
view. We also expect innovative works in the case of documentaries, and the same applies to the
category of ‘Short Historical Feature’ as well as ‘Short Documentary’.

We also announced an opportunity of competition for young people studying film at university.
The festival takes place in Hungary, in the town of Pápa. Pápa has a significant Hungarian historical
past, its present image also represents that. We would like to organize this festival in a historical
atmosphere, at a place where everything is provided for the artists to enjoy themselves. Modern
accommodation, yet streets with historical milieu. Enormous castle for the receptions, yet modern
cinema for the screenings.

The jury consists of excellent international film experts. We really hope that the current situation will
change by October and we can meet freely between 17th -20 th February 2022, in this beautiful
town!

Zsolt Pozsgai
director, producer lead arranger