Lend Me Your Eyes, Baltazars

Recipient of the Best Director, Documentary Feature Film Category, Jaipur International Film Festival 2018

 

The Baltazar Theatre, founded in 1998, is the only professional theatre company in Hungary whose members are mentally disabled actors. In the last 22 years, the company has become a significant part of Hungarian theatrical life. The Baltazar Theatre breaks new ground by putting actors’ disabilities in the background and emphasizing their talent instead. Since the very beginning, the purpose of the Baltazar Theatre is to get disabled and non-disabled parts of society closer to each other. Several years of artistic work with the actors of Baltazar has showed us that the word ”disabled” means nothing when it comes to art.

 

Lend Me Your Eyes, Baltazars is infused with the naturalness, lyricism and humour flooding from the entertainers as the film talks about the journey of two young Hungarian women who travel to the southern part of India in search of self-discovery. The film follows the journey of the entertainers from Tamil Nadu to Vaiteeswaran Koil.

 

https://vimeo.com/266811576

 

Organised in collaboration with Hungarian Information & Cultural Centre