14th Budapest Jewish and Israeli Film Festival
November 26 – November 30, 2025
The main patron of the festival:
Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest
Festival director:
Marcell Kenesei, Director of JCC Budapest – Bálint Ház
Festival organiser:
JCC Budapest
Curators of the festival:
Zsuzsa Fritz, Bálint House – Head of the Source Jewish Knowledge Library
Eszter Lányi, cultural specialist.
Andrea Ausztrics, producer, curator
Nir Ferber, Israeli film specialist
Communication and press relations:
Orsolya Boncsér (e-mail: boncser.orsolya@balinthaz.hu)
Graphic Designer:
KIOSK – McCann Budapest
Social Media:
Orsolya Boncsér, Noémi Asztalos
Program booklet editor:
Gergő Borbás, Orsolya Boncsér, Andrea Ausztrics
The opening and closing event organizer:
Dóra Felde-Kovács
General information: info@zsifi.org
General information: zsifi@balinthaz.hu
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This year, we’re once again bringing you the best Israeli and Jewish-themed films from the past year, now with more female-centered stories and creators than ever before!
For 13 years, the Budapest Jewish and Israeli Film Festival has made us laugh, think, and talk late into the night about Jews and non-Jews, identity, and the world we live in.
The aim of JCC Budapest – Bálint Ház remains the same as it was at the festival’s founding: to offer a rich, nuanced, and rarely seen portrait of Jewish life in all its diversity and in its present, lived reality.
The primary organizer of the event for twelve consecutive years remains JCC Budapest – Bálint Ház.
Our strategic partners include JDC, the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach, BZSH, and MAZSIHISZ.
Our key partners are the Embassy of Israel, the Municipality of Budapest, the German Federal Foreign Office, and the Thalheimer family.
Our collaborating partners are Budapest Film, Puskin Cinema, French Institute, Goethe Institute, Merkaz – Hebrew and Israeli Cultural Center, Centropa Foundation, Kibic Magazine, Demján Sándor Foundation, Etele Pláza, British Council.
Tickets go on sale on 6 November at www.artmozi.hu and at the cinema box office.