Katalin Bársony
Romani film-maker
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Katalin Bársony (born 1982) is a Hungarian Romani film-maker and sociologist. She produced the series Mundi Romani – The World through Roma Eyes and directed the documentary How Far the Stars.
Katalin Bársony | |
|---|---|
Bársony Katalin | |
| Born | 1982 (age 43–44) |
| Occupations | Film director; sociologist; Romani rights activist |
| Years active | 2000s–present |
| Known for | Mundi Romani – The World through Roma Eyes; How Far the Stars; executive director of the Romedia Foundation |
| Title | Executive director, Romedia Foundation |
| Parent | Ágnes Daróczi (mother) |
| Awards | UNESCO Award for Cultural Understanding (2010) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Corvinus University of Budapest (PhD in communication and behavioural sciences) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology; Communication studies |
Sub-discipline | Romani studies; media and communication |
| Institutions | Romedia Foundation |
Notable works | Mundi Romani – The World through Roma Eyes; How Far the Stars |
Life
Katalin Bársony was born in 1982 in Budapest to a Romani mother (Ágnes Daróczi) and a Jewish father.[1] She studied for a PhD at the Corvinus University.[2] She then worked in television and created Mundi Romani – The World through Roma Eyes, the first documentary series about Romani communities to be shown on Hungarian television.[1]
In 2009, Bársony was one of four experts who briefed the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe on Romani issues.[3] She is the executive director of the Romedia Foundation, which produces films about Romani communities.[4] Bársony was asked to curate a selection of 35 films about Romani culture for the RomArchive.[5] She took her 2019 documentary How Far the Stars to festivals including Sarajevo Film Festival and Eastern Neighbours.[6][7]
Her documentary Suno Dikhlem, a Belgian–Hungarian co-production, was selected for the main competition of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival. the film follows a Kosovar Roma boy who faces deportation from Germany and explores questions of identity, home and future.[8]
Selected works
- 2025 I Saw a 'Suno' Suno DikhlemIt will compete at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival in August.[9]
- 2019 How Far the Stars (director of documentary)
- 2007–2011 Mundi Romani – The World through Roma Eyes (creator of series)