Watch the recording HERE Between May 5 and 9, Independent Theater Hungary organized the 8th Roma Heroes International Theater Festival in Budapest. At the festival, British, Italian, Romanian, and Hungarian Roma artists demonstrated through stand-up performances, satirical monodramas, live arts, music, and Q&A sessions how humor can become a weapon that liberates theater from the captivity of drama and victimhood. ... Read More
Tickets Szilvi, Kriszti and Viki are looking for their own path in the dense forest of adulthood. In the midst of successes and failures, and changes of direction, the biggest challenge is not reaching the finish line, but avoiding losing ourselves and each other. The Top of the Breadfruit Tree is a heartbreakingly funny coming-of-age story about togetherness, distance, re-planning ... Read More
Tickets Szilvi, Kriszti and Viki are looking for their own path in the dense forest of adulthood. In the midst of successes and failures, and changes of direction, the biggest challenge is not reaching the finish line, but avoiding losing ourselves and each other. The Top of the Breadfruit Tree is a heartbreakingly funny coming-of-age story about togetherness, distance, re-planning ... Read More
Füszi’s very first stand-up night! Roma and non-Roma girls on the same stage – hard-hitting stories, dangerous honesty, and four harmless women. Women doing stand-up? Of course! Budapest has never seen performers this brave and outspoken. If you’ve never been to a stand-up show, this is the time.If you have, this night will take it to the next level – ... Read More
Tickets Sándor wants to be a free filmmaker, but the Eastern European dictatorship he lives under has other plans for him. The state dictates his professional work, his social life and even invades his bedroom. How can a young person from an impoverished Roma village become successful? How far can an artist go before the authorities silence them? ... Read More
Tickets Everyone has heard, or perhaps even said, something about someone: “Gypsy, but cool!” Rudi has heard it too. About himself. These three words, intended as recognition, contain a surprising amount of meaning on both a personal and social level. What impact do these three words have? What does it take to overcome our prejudices, and can we overcome ... Read More
