She graduated in film theory and film history from ELTE university in 2013. Her first full-length film was a documentary about a self-help psychodrama group that used films and photos as tools. In the past years she has directed several short films, the last of which, Maria Theresa Gives Birth, received the Hungarian Film Critics’ prize in 2024. Last year she shot her first feature, Tomorrow I Die, a psychological horror movie. It premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival, where it received a Special Mention in the first feature film section.
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Film director, screenwriter. He graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in 1997 in the class of Gyula Gazdag and János Herskó. One of his exam films, “Az eltűnt mozi” (The Lost Cinema) was shortlisted for the Student Oscar and screened at 36 international festivals. His first feature, Seaside, Dusk, was invited to close to 50 international festivals and received several awards. In 2000 he was given the B. Nagy László Award, the Hungarian Film Critics’ prize for the best film of the year. His script Rise Up and Walk received the award of the German Film Producers’ Association on the Berlinale co-production market. He has directed a number of documentaries and TV series. His latest film, In the Face of Gravity, was invited to several festivals in 2023. At the moment he works on two film projects. He is a board member of the Association of Hungarian Film Directors (AHD).
She started her directorial studies at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in 2019, but graduated in the joint program of Freeszfe and Filmakademie Wien. Her graduation film, Alba Vulva, premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2022, and then was invited to a number of international festivals. At Filmschoolfest Munich, it received the ARTE Award and was acquired by and made available on the channel.
Her first feature, Arni, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2023, and then was invited to the competition program of several important festivals, including the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Raindance Film Festival in London. In addition to the national and international awards of the film, Dorka Vermes was given the best director award both by the jury of the Hungarian Film Review and by the Hungarian Film Critics’ Association in 2025.
In 2024 she spent a month in Los Angeles on a Golden Globe Residency, working on her second feature. The film is now in development, expected to be shot as a Hungarian-German co-production.