Awards

2020 Film London: Lodestar Jury, Artist Moving Image category
2019 Film Practice Research Fellowship – Film and Ethics at Queen Mary University
2019 DocSociety Fellowship
2019 Film London: Lodestar nominated by FLAMIN
2018 Creative Europe Single Projects Development Grant
2018 Aesthetica Art Prize Shortlist, York
2017 FLAMIN New Approaches
2017 Directing Award, Underwire Film Festival, London
2017 Best Experimental Film, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York
2017 Silver Eye Nominee, Jihlava
2017 Open Frame Award Nominee, Wiesbaden
2017 Best Short Documentary, London Short Film Festival, London

Studies

2013 – 2016 MA Vizuális Kommunikáció, Mozgókép Szakirány, Royal College of Art, London
2009 – 2012 BA Design és Művészetelmélet, MOME, Budapest

Language skills

Angol felsőfok
Német középfok

Selected Filmography

And It Was The Same With My Son - short documentary / 9 / Miraj Films (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/601279/isis-radicalization-son/

We rarely hear about the parents who are left behind to pick up the pieces when they lose a child to radicalisation. With poetic reconstruction, one mother shares her journey.

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
Interfilm Berlin 2019 – Honorary Mention of the Jury
Aesthetica Film Festival 2019

The Happiest Barrack – short documentary 15 minutes (2016)

“The Happiest Barrack” is Noémi Varga’s final project at the Royal College of Art in London. The film observes the effect of the socialist era of the country’s history on the individual through the retelling of her maternal grandmother’s life. This creative documentary, which is a 15-minute long single take through the everydays of one of the so called “kommunalka’s (shared apartments) shows the dramatic impact and the structure of Kádár’s Hungary.

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
London Short Film Festival 2017 : Best Short Documentary
Aesthetica Film Festival 2017 : Best Experimental Film
Underwire Film Festival 2017 : Directing Award
goEast Film Festival Wiesbaden 2017: Open Frame Award Nominee
Jihlava East Silver Market 2017: Silver Eye Nominee
Open City Docs London 2017