Judith Insell viola player and Joe Fonda bassist are the two prominent individualities of New York's jazz scene. They visited Győr with their common project, Dark Wood Explorations on the 15th of February 2009. Their music is dark, improvised, rich in folk and classical elements and has an unusual switch of roles: the violin plays the lower, and the bass play the higher parts of the composition...

Leader: ALEXANDER BALANSCU (GBR) - violin Participants og workshop: BAKAI MÁRTON (HUN) - violin /Esztergom/ KÉZDY LUCA (HUN) - violin / Győr-Budapest/ TISZOLCZI-BERTALAN ANNA (HUN) - violin /Győr-Budapest/ PRIBAY VALÉRIA (HUN) - cello /Budapest/ SZÁLKA GERGELY (HUN) - cello /Budapest/ TAKÁCS BORZA ÁKOS (SRB) - cello /Subotica/

The local Culture Center of Dunajská Streda was the 11th station of the Passport Control initiation. The Folk Blues Workshop, which had started in the MEDIAWAVE Festival 2008 - continued with the leadership of György Ferenczi. The Pántlika Band, Ján Čincura and two mesmerizing singer, Melinda Volner Nagy and Denisa Varga joined the earlier evolved formation: the Colombre Band from Győr and the Rackajam from Budapest...

Kahriman – guitar,vocal, Dilnur – vocal, Mufuful – guitar, Aikebaierjiang Abulizi – guitar, Paizula Fulate – e. bass, Azimaiti Aikenmu – uygur folk instruments, drums, Tuerxun Aheniyazi – uygur folk instruments, drums The Uygurs are people of the Islamic culture speaking ancient Turkish in the north-western parts of China. Khariman Band...

The film is situated in a real train station, but it is fiction. Borderline. People come, stop and stand around waiting, and get on trains. Hungarians, Transylvanian Saxons, Romanians, Székelys, Changos, Roma, Jews, Serbs, British and French pass through the station. There’s singing and dancing. Válaszút Táncegyüttes (presenter), Ordasok Táncegyüttes (presenter), Zurgó (presenter)...

PASSPORT CONTROL 20. MEDIAWAVE GIPSY - HUNGARIAN FILM WORKSHOP 29-31 October, Győr, Hungary supported by: NORWAY GRANTS ÖKOTÁRS FOUNDATION NKA MEDIAWAVE PRODUCTION 2010

Orsós Ervin - vocal, guitar Bogdán Sándor - kanna, vocal Orsós Tibor - vocal, kanál Orsós György „Bubu” - cayon, vocal

The MEDIAWAVE caravan set off to the direction of Djungaria for the 2nd time in autumn, 2004. We already knew the place we were about to go. More precisely, we three knew it, as Sanyi Silló and me (Jenő Hartyándi) had participated a similar tour in 1998 when the Dresh Quartet, Robi Kerényi, Gábor Boka, Robi Kassai and others, altogether 13 people, bought the fame of Hungary to China...