Asia Dér

Asia Dér (b.1985, Hungary / Slovakia) graduated as a documentary film director at the DocNomads MA program. Her first feature (co-directed with Sári Haragonics) Her Mothers was shown at more than 30 international film festivals and won several awards, among them Best Film Award at Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer and Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz. The film was made in co-production with HBO and was supported by the Sundance Institute post-production fund.

Her second feature-length documentary, I Won't Die, had its international premiere at the A-category Warsaw Film Festival in 2023. She is an alumnus of ZagrebDox Pro, and CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator and participated at East Doc Platform, Cannes Docs, and the Docu Rough Cut Boutique. She will pursue her doctoral degree in 2024. Asia is a lecturer and mentor at Freeszfe and Docnomads MA program and a Hungarian Documentary Association (MADOKE) board member.

EDUCATION
2014     DocNomads joint Master's degree in documentary film directing (the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, Sint Lukas University in Brussels, Lusofona University in Lisbon)
2024     PhD at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest

FILMOGRAPHY

2023     I won't Die (Nem halok meg)
2022     Howling like we do (A magunk módjára üvölteni)
2020     Her Mothers (Anyáim története)
2017     Burdened by the past (Visszahúz a múlt)

Date of residency: 25.03.2024 – 07.04.2024