Bio
Balint is a Budapest-based director trained in Paris and New York who captures the bittersweet complexities of human connection with visual precision and emotional depth. He finds profound stories in the spaces where intimacy meets absurdity, exploring the subtle rituals we create to cope with trust, betrayal, and passion. His fiction work examines how we navigate change and vulnerability, while his documentaries reveal hidden depths through empathy and close attention. Balint brings the same nuanced visual approach to commercial projects, creating work that feels both artistically distinctive and deeply human.
Selected Festival & Industry Highlights
- • Moscow International Film Festival (Russia)
- • Tehran International Short Film Festival (Iran)
- • Cottbus Film Festival (Germany)
- • DokumentART (Germany)
- • International Short Film Festival Detmold (Germany)
- • MICGénero (Mexico)
- • International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala (India)
- • Women’s Voices Now (USA)
- • Freiburger Lesben Filmtage (Germany)
- • Friss Hús – Best of Friss Hús Selection (Hungary)
- • Zsigmond Vilmos International Film Festival (Hungary)
- • 44th Hungarian Film Week (Hungary)
- • MediaWave (Hungary)
- • BuSho – Budapest Short Film Festival (Hungary)
- • OFF-Biennále (Hungary)
- • Duna Televízió M/5 (Hungary)
- • Országos Függetlenfilm Fesztivál (Hungary)
- • Ars Sacra Filmfesztivál (Hungary)
Talent Programs, Workshops & Forums
- • Sarajevo Talent Campus (2019, with Gyula Gazdag)
- • Torino Short Film Market (2020)
- • Vienna Short Film Festival Talent Days (2025)
- • Friss Hús Short Film Pitch Forum (2020)
- • Inforg Workshop (2007, with Marcell Iványi)
- • FilmTett Workshop (2012, with Szabolcs Hajdu)
- • KözKemp Workshop (2017, with Igor & Ivan Buharov)
- • Ságház Workshop (2009, with György Pálfi)
Grants & Funds
- • Fulbright Scholarship (2015)
- • Rosztoczy Foundation Grant (2015)
- • Szőnyi István Scholarship (2016)
- • Dr. Bognár Scholarship (2016)
- • Erasmus Scholarship (2012)
- • Hamvas Béla Memorial Committee Film Fund (2021)
- • HAVAS Media Group Film Fund (2016)
- • National Film Fund of Hungary (Nemzeti Filmalap, 2015)
- • FilmTett Foundation Film Fund (2012)