essay film (19 mins)

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in collaboration with Andreas Landeck

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The Bell Rings is a sweeping, untold story of bodies and emotions surfacing and submerging in a crowd gathered at the 2023 Tusványos Festival in Romania, a week long politics and music event organized by the Hungarian government. Un/Consciously, the festival goers absorb the ethnonationalist politics and gender war of Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary, who (since he came to power in 2010) uses Tusványos Festival to canvass his ideas of nation.

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Awards

Best International Documentary

Young Jury of Asti Film Festival, Italy, 2024

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Honorary Mention

CineFest São Jorge Film Festival, Brazil, 2024

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Honorary Mention

Activist Without Borders Film Festival, UK, 2024

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Official Selection

London Lift-Off Film Festival 2023

Eastern Europe Film Festival 2024

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The film was discussed at the

Breaking with Humanity?

event in London, at The Castle Cinema on 19 April 2024 with

Dr Shona Hunter, Ashwani Sharma, Dr Szilvi Naray and Dr Syed Haider.

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Screened and presented at

Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) annual conference,

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

April 2025

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Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) annual conference, University of Manchester, UK

Sept 2024

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International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) annual conference, 

Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico

June 2024

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