Oscar contender in “Best Documentary” and ten-times award-winning TORN FROM THE FLAG: A FILM BY KLAUDIA KOVACS just received an invite to Film Festival at the Corvin Theater. The event will take place in October 2026 in Hungary and is organized to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight. The showing will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the film’s director, Klaudia Kovacs, historians, survivors, and witnesses. The documentary’s second screening in the country will help introduce this uniquely evergreen and highly respected project to local audiences. The event-series is supported by Budapest Film, the City of Budapest, and the National Film Archive. At the opening, there will be speeches by Katalin Jánosi, the granddaughter of Imre Nagy, historian János M. Rainer, former director of the '56 Institute, and Budapest’s Mayor Gergely Karácsony. The festival’s director is Réka Pigniczky, co-founder and Pál Schiffer Prize-winning director of 56Films.
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Amherst College Acquires documentary, TORN FROM THE FLAG, for its Library /
Amherst College acquired the documentary, TORN FROM THE FLAG - A FILM BY KLAUDIA KOVACS, for its library. American political scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, William Taubman, stars in the Oscar-contender and eight-time award-winning film about the Cold War and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Taubman is a Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, and his biography of Nikita Khrushchev also won the National Book Critics Award for Biography in 2003.
Currently, for the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Freedom Fight of 1956, the so called “70 for 70 Program” aims to actively expand TORN FROM THE FLAG’s presence in American libraries and seeks to be added to another 70 libraries around the country. Libraries can acquire the movie here: https://klaudiakovacs.com/torn-from-the-flag-public-use-dvd
Private audiences can stream TORN FROM THE FLAG here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tornfromtheflag
Multi-Award-Winning Film Director, Klaudia Kovács' Hungarian Heritage Expo Talk Becomes Available Online /
Multi-award-winning film director, Klaudia Kovács, released her presentation at the Hungarian Heritage Expo 2025 online. The talk celebrates Hungarian heritage and culture, and presents her brainchild the “70 for 70 Commemoration Series” dedicated to the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 through the lens of her Oscar-contender documentary, TORN FROM THE FLAG. The film company’s Commemoration Series is looking for national and international hosts, exhibitors, sponsors, donors, libraries, schools, and individuals who want to help with this significant anniversary. The presentation can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/qL7dRE3OEOY
Contact the “70 for 70 Commemoration Series” here: http://www.klaudiakovacs.com/torn-from-the-flag
ARTICLE - Unfostered Dreams: Klaudia Kovács’s Journey from Foster Care to Hollywood Filmmaking /
THE BUDAPEST HERALD published multi-award-winning film and theater director, Klaudia Kovács’ piece about her experience with and long-term impact of foster care. The article’s introduction was written by Hollywood correspondent and accomplished journalist, Virag Vida: “As we mark National Foster Care Month in the USA, it is both an honor and a responsibility to spotlight voices that rise from lived experience—voices that don’t just tell stories, but are the story. One such voice belongs to award-winning Hungarian-American director Klaudia Kovács, whose life and work continue to bridge continents, cultures, and generations. In this deeply personal piece, she reflects on growing up in foster care, peeling back the layers of her childhood with rare honesty and sensitivity.” To read the article, go to: Unfostered Dreams: Klaudia Kovács's Journey from Foster Care to Hollywood Filmmaking
Multi-Award-Winning Film Director, Klaudia Kovács, was Interviewed by European TV Station /
Hollywood-based film and theater director, Klaudia Kovács was interviewed by a Hungarian television station about how the Los Angeles film industry has been impacted by the local January fires: Napi aktuális - Kovács Klaudia (2025-01-21) - HÍR TV