In 2025, the Budapest Classics Film Marathon is offering a professional programme at the French Institute. Conferences and panel discussions with Hungarian and international guests, presentations of the latest film archive projects and research findings and a Archive Market will be held from 17 to 19 September.
Interpretation will be provided in Hungarian, English and French.
Free entrance.
17 SEPTEMBER
9:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome words
Research & Restoration 1.
10:10 Céline Ruivo, Professor and consultant at the Greek Film Archives | The Project of the Greek Film Archives Digital Lab | Language: French
10:30 Tereza Frodlová, Restorer and Curator at Národní filmový archiv, Prague – Jakub Egermajer, Filmographer–Cataloguer at Národní filmový archiv, Prague | Film as a Historical Witness: Digital Restoration of Jan Roháč of Dubá (1947) | Language: English
10:50 Guillaume Poulet, General Manager, Image’Est | Amateur Cinema: A New and Original Film Memory | Language: French
11:10 Q&A
11:20 Coffee break
Research & Restoration 2.
11:50 Francesca Bozzano, Director of Collections – Curator Cinémathèque de Toulouse – Carole Fodor, Film Collection Curator, Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé – Stéphanie Salmon, – Director of Collections, Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, Viktória Sovák, Film post-production specialist, Director of the NFI Film Lab | The Colors of Christophe Colomb: A comparative study of color copies made for the film produced by Pathé in 1904 | Language: French
12:10 Q&A
12:20 Georges Mourier, director and researcher | Abel Gance's Napoleon: The Saga – Film Screening | Language: French with English subtitles
18 SEPTEMBER
Episodes of Hungarian Silent Film History
10:00 Bálint Zágoni, Manager, Filmtett Association, doctoral student, Institute of Hungarian Film and Media, Babeș-Bolyai University | Attempted reconstruction of the plot of the silent picture Sárga csikó (1914) | Language: Hungarian
10:30 Beja Margitházi, Film Researcher, Assistant Professor, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Department of Film Studies | Re-inventing the archived. The role of ’scene photographs’ in the stlylistic reasearch of Transylvian silent film (1913–1918) | Language: English
10:50 Éric Le Roy, Film Historian | Camille de Morlhon, pioneer of French cinema in Hungary | Language: French
11:10 Q&A
11:20 Coffee break
Adverts and Formats
11:50 Manuela Padoan, Director of GP Archives | Story of a Restoration | Language: French
12:10 Killa Köllő, Doctoral student, Doctoral School of Philosophy, ELTE Faculty of Humanities | Next time here! – Cinema promotional messages in the history of Hungarian trailers | Language: Hungarian
12:30 Jean-Baptiste Garnero, Study manager for the valorization of collections preserved by CNC | Etienne Rajk – The fine Art of advertising film | Language: French
12:50 Márton Kurutz, Researcher | The constantly deteriorating chapter of the film history | Language: Hungarian
13:10 Q&A
19 SEPTEMBER
Archive and Audience 1.
10:00 Zsolt Pápai, Film Historian, Film Critic | Hungarian Film Noir (1939–1944): Themes of Happiness and Unhappiness | Language: Hungarian
10:30 Peggy Zejgman-Lecarme, Director of Cultural Division, CITIA / Annecy Festival | Welcome to La Cité Internationale du cinéma d’animation! | Language: French
10:50 Audrey Birrien, Senior project manager, INA - French National Audiovisual Institute | Restoring INA’s audiovisual heritage for BCFM festival| Language: French
11:10 Coffee break
Archive and Audience 2.
11:50 Lipót Répászky, Head of Archive, National Archive | Audiovisual archives in the shadow of online noise | Language: Hungarian
12:10 Sophie Le Goff, Project Manager, Cultural & Educational Affairs and Partnerships at INA – French National Audiovisual Institute | INA’s collections for commercial and institutional projects | Language: French
12:30 Benjamin Alimi, Managing Director, TransPerfect Media | How to restore feature films made after the 2000s? | Language: English
12:50 Q&A
10:00 – 13:00 Budapest Archive Market