Balogh Rita
Producer
Other Roles: Director
Areas of Focus: Documentaries
Organization: OTHER FILMS
Biography
Balogh, passionate about documentaries, works in distribution, producing, and directing. In 2016, she founded her production company OTHER FILMS, creating impactful works for the international market like Whose Dog Am I?, screened at festivals such as Warsaw IFF and Tallinn Black Nights. Her recently co-produced series Iron Curtain premiered on ARTE in 2024. OTHER FILMS focuses on international co-productions and alternative distribution, fostering social discourse across the world. Co-founder of the Budapest International Documentary Festival (BIDF), she also launched a rural open-air cinema. Her online docu series as a director, Before We Grow Up, reached 20K viewers per episode.
Films
Whose Dog Am I? (2022)
Role: Producer
In this documentary satire, dog breading ideologies are metaphors for human national and social politics.
Festivals and nominations:
– International Premier: Warsaw Film Festival, Free Spirit competition
– Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, DOCS@PÖFF section
– ASTRA International Film Festival, Romanian competition
– VERZIÓ Human Rights Film Festival, Hungarian competition
– Silver Eye Award, nomination
– Lagów – Lubuskie Film Summer
– Wiesbaden – GoEast FF – out of competition
– MEDIAWAVE Film & Music Festival – Best Director Award
Caretakers (2027)
Role: Producer
Caretakers follows two Hungarian women, Zsuzsa and Brigitta, as they navigate the hidden struggles of undocumented caregiving in Germany and the U.S. While Western societies rely on their labor to sustain families and healthcare systems, these women are denied basic rights, trapped in cycles of exploitation, and forced to sacrifice their own stability. Balancing family ties, isolation, and an uncertain future, their journeys expose the harsh reality of migrant caregivers, essential yet invisible, revealing a system that benefits from their work while refusing their recognition.
Iron Cutain - Life Under Sovie Occupation (2023)
Role: Producer
In the aftermath of World War II, all the countries of Eastern Europe occupied by the Red Army fall under the domination of Soviet Russia. How did the USSR get its hands on these countries? How did the Soviet model manage to control the daily lives of millions of Europeans in the shadow of the Iron Curtain?
Through the intimate testimonies of inhabitants who lived through the totalitarian transformation of their countries (Hungary, Poland and East Germany), director Tania Rakhmanova who herself grew up in the USSR, tells the story of the forced sovietization of Eastern Europe, from 1944 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.
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