Fearkingdom

Synopsis

30 years ago, it was Hungary that tore down the Iron Curtain by opening its borders for East German refugees. In 2015, out of "fear of refugees", the Hungarian government had a new border fence made of barbed wire rebuilt along the Serbian-Croatian border.

Director Biography

Kornél Szilágyi (born 1971 in Budapest) is a filmmaker and artist. Under the pseudonym Igor Buharov he produced and directed together with his artistic brother Ivan Buharov many, diverse short and feature films, ranging from experimental and documentary to animation. Linn Löffler (born 1983 in East Berlin) is a filmmaker, musician and working since 2007 in the field of film production and cultural management. She is a founding member of the independent film collective LaborBerlin e.V. Since 2012 she is working for Berlinale Shorts.