FIPRESCI General Assembly 2025

From the FIPRESCI Board and its President Ahmed Shawky
To the National Sections

Dear Colleagues,

Our 2025 general assembly is confirmed: again, in Budapest during the Budapest Classics Film Marathon for the second year in a row. That’s a preliminary announcement, more details about the agenda and process will follow. But it’s an important assembly, in which we will elect the board that will run the federation activities for the coming four years.
The schedule will be the following:

Arrival of the delegates: September 16

General Assembly and elections: September 17

End of GA and open discussion: September 18 morning

Departure: September 19

Delegates. Our national sections are invited to appoint their delegate. Each section can nominate one delegate. In countries where two associations form the national section, both associations are requested to agree on one common delegate (two delegates may be admitted in case of available festival invitations).

Important: due to limited seats, only one person can represent each section or sub-section, including those who are board members or those who will be candidates for the elected posts. Please put this in consideration.

Make your delegate known, in written, to the following three emails: office (at info@fipresci.org), Director of legal affairs (at p.j.maarek@gmail.com), and President (at shawforlife@hotmail.com),  by July 15, 2025 , 24 h CEST. (Later arriving requests will not be considered.)

Do not book your flight before our confirmation. More information will follow soon. 

Ahmed Shawky
FIPRESCI President
andAlin Tasciyan, Paola Casella and Elena Rubashevska, FIPRESCI Vice-Presidents 
©FIPRESCI 2025