The MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Festival on the one hand is an international competition of films, on the other hand it’s a mixture of jazz, ethno, alternative and electronic musical concerts and workshops. In addition exhibitions, theatrical and dance performances are held accompanied by gastronomical and natural programmes.

MEDIAWAVE, which involves many cultural and leisure programmes, is an excellent festival, which helps us prepare for summer. It is held in the period of time when we say goodbye to bad weather and we greet sunshine. The nature turns into green, flowers appear and birds start to sing (it also means that girls and women wear less clothes). After all we can say that MEDIAWAVE is the best way of celebrating summer in advance.

The programme augurs well. The centre will be Győr just as usual. To the international film competition we recieved 1084 nominations from 66 countries from all over the world. From them, the professional pre-selection comittee has choosen the best ones and built up the programme.

Members of the preview jury were:

László CSÁKI – film director, experimental and animation filmmaker, teacher (Moholy-Nagy Art University)
György DURST – film producer, President of MEDIAWAVE International Visual Art Foundation
Sándor SILLÓ – television film director, dramaturg
Balázs VARGA – film critic, university teacher (ELTE)
Virág ZOMBORÁCZ – student of Film- and Theatre University, Scriptwriting Faculty

The musical section also will be up to par. The organisers expect many world famous musician to the stage: TEN YEARS AFTER jazz - blues - rock heroes from England, DAVID MURRAY with Black Saint Quartet representing the american black jazz, CAMPBELL BROTHERS African-American gospel band with electric steel guitar and vocal, brand new american jazz artists RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA & VIJAY IYER duo. We can also mention the beautiful Norwegian singer KRISTIN ASBJORNSEN with her special spiritual programme and the French LE TIGRES DES PLATANES band with Eténèsh WASSIÉ vocalist or DJABE band with the saxophonist star JOHN NUGENT and MALIK MANSUROV behind the percussion instruments…All these bands and singers show the special programme which can only come true at MEDIAWAVE Festival.

The festival is considered as a Central and Eastern European transit-festival, since by the festival centre (Győr, Hungary) there are going to happen simultaneously cultural and artistic events in 30 different venues of 4 different countries in the region (beside Hungary in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic).