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)...

Clipp Supported by: Norway Grants

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

Photographer Béla Kása has been roaming Transylvania for 30 years, photographing native peasant musicians. With him as our leader, our film crew took a 2400 km journey to find the "models" of Béla's pictures. Szék was one of the important destinations of our expedition.