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Festival (3-7 September) + Program table

FILM SCREENING: Raw Material/ dir.: Martin BOROSS

Event date: 2025 September 05 , 7:00 PM Details:

A young film director is invited by the mayor of a village to facilitate a summer workshop for kids. He quickly discovers that the village is overrun with corruption and exploitation. He decides to intervene, but his good intentions threaten everyone involved.

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Presented at TBSP Studio ground floor

48 Dobbin St, Brooklyn

FILM SCREENING: Raw Material/ dir.: Martin BOROSS

You’ve got their story. You decide what to do with it.

A young film director, Tamás is invited to a village to lead a summer art workshop for kids. He quickly discovers that the village is overrun with corruption and exploitation. He starts an investigation into the abusive mayor and exposes him by shooting a documentary. The mayor finds out about Tamás’ new mission, the locals turn against each other, and what began as an easygoing summer adventure, starts to threaten everyone involved.

Martin Boross’ feature debut is a critical reflection on the filmmakers’ responsibility and harmful activism in an all-too-familiar microcosm of oppression.

Stick around after the screening for a special Q&A with the director — we’d love to have you join us!

Winner of Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury of the Hungarian National Film Festival ’25.

Nominations:
Best Screenplay (Hungarian Motion Picture Festival ’24)
Best Debut Feature Film (Hungarian Motion Picture Festival ’24)

Participant of First Cut Lab Hungary ’22.
Winner of Just Film Award in the Work in Progress section of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event in ’22.

 

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The idea for the story came out of my experience filming a documentary, which centered on a group of teenagers in a Roma-majority Hungarian village. During filming, we came across the ethical questions which we must face when making work with and about marginalized groups: Who has authorship? When should we intervene? What happens to our carefully built relationships after a project ends?
I began playing with the idea of activism going wrong and a story in which the artists lie to themselves about the effect and importance of their work, and think that they can solve a community’s problems better than the community itself.
Raw Material is a social drama with a mixed cast of professional and non-professional actors.
The film is about the collision of two cultures and the parallel stories of leaders whose success legitimates their abuse of power. It’s a modern colonization story where the colonizer is not a big firm or an oppressive country, but rather a well-meaning artist: a filmmaker.

First feature film by Martin Boross produced by Filmfabriq and STEREO AKT
written by: Martin Boross and Fanni Szántó
DoP: Dániel Bálint, Kristóf Becsey
directed by: Martin Boross

Main roles:
Zsolt Dér, András Pál, Blanka Mészáros, Dániel Baki, Erika Tankó, Stefi Szabó

Production Design: Anna Fekete
Costume: Petra Mák
Music: Márk Bartha
Editor: Anna Vághy
Producer: Gábor Osváth
co-producers: Péter Grüll, András Juhász, Zoltán Mártonffy, Dániel Mayer

RAW MATERIAL TRAILER HERE.

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