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SONGS FROM PEOPLE'S ISLAND — Hungary, United Kingdom 2024 — Directed by: Danijar Bíró — 25 min — Producer: Danijar Bíró — Production Company: Triad Visions

A musical portrait of Budapest’s transforming rust belt, seen through the eyes of a homeless islander witnessing gentrification on People’s Island.

The skeletal remains of factories on People’s Island stand as relics of a time when this landscape was a major industrial zone of Budapest and the Danube. Today, the rust belt is rapidly reshaped, taking on a new face each year. While change is inevitable, questions remain: in whose interest is the island being transformed, and what does it mean for those who live there?

Songs from People’s Island is a visual study and musical panorama, infused with elements of absurdist tragicomedy. From the perspective of a homeless islander, it explores the experience of gentrification and the fragile coexistence of past and future on this contested ground.

Festivals

21st Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2024
44th Hungarian Filmweek 2025

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