Discoveries from Hungary World Cinema

A father takes his son on a deer hunt, in the attempt to recconect with the boy. However, their intrusion disturbs the balance of the forest, and awakens its female spirit.

Joseph II, the enlightened Austro-Hungarian emperor, entrusts his loyal and confidential subject, Ráby Mátyás, formerly a treasurer, to examine the abuses made by the magistrates of Szentendre and Izbég. Following his old friend, Dacsó Marci's directions, Ráby reveals horrible robberies, tax evasions, frauds, and other illegal acts having been committed against the people.

Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers killed and seriously injured Roma children and adults. The state charged 4 men with committing the crime with racial motivation. This historical trial started March, 2011, and ended August, 2013 in Budapest. The 167 days of hearings was only documented continuously by our crew. We had exclusive permission to use multiple cameras in the court-room. The film is a classical chamber-drama, taking place in a small, claustrophobic court room, in the middle of Europe. What will be the outcome of the marathon, 3 year-long trial?

The story is of a veteran hussar in the Austrian army in the first half of the 19th century who sits in the village inn regaling his listeners with fantastic tales of heroism

Nándor Lerner, a successful building contractor, is plunged into a completely alien world and in a single minute loses his car, his papers worth millions and his beautiful girlfriend. Other people turn to their friends. Only he never had one. With nowhere else to turn for help, he forms a forced friendship with Vereb, a singer-turned-robbery-obsessed Roma mechanic, and his two partners, the nervous Ritsi and the silent Robi, who lives only for women and fighting. They have just one day to get back into Sparrow's freshly tuned 1200 and take back everything, fight evil and their prejudices against each other.

A cheerfully oblivious orange figure bumbles from one surreal situation into another, until he discovers he can escape from the cartoon world into the real one - with unexpected consequences.

Pál Schäfer is 22 years old. His school-leaving exam didn't go well, so now he works for his father's washing machine repair company. Nóra Abonyi is 25 and a half years old. She always wanted to be a painter, but now she works for a tattoo salon. None of them had luck in love before, but one-day Pál found a colourful stone in the riverside.

Öcsi is a difficult child to handle, although he always wants to do good. For example, if he fights, he only does it to protect the girls, he does the dishes in the bathroom because he developed a better procedure, and he also brought a puppy home just to ease the family’s financial worries.

For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions.

“István és Koppány,” the definitive Hungarian rock-opera by Levente Szörényi and János Bródy about the nation’s founding, returns for its 30th anniversary in a bold new staging by Róbert Alföldi. With unchanged music and lyrics, the spectacle unfolds on an 860 m², 21 m-high set, featuring 150 dancers and extras, a 60-piece symphony orchestra and a six-member rock band, all brought to life with redesigned décor and costumes.

The film presents the universal problems of musicians throughout the life of the band ACID. Underground clubs, unforgettable parties, upward success at first, then membership swaps, love, addiction problems, unfulfilled contracts. The band members talk about how they experience and see these things. Recollections reveal who these robots are and how they met.

Kata, in her 20s, loses her boyfriend and her job on the same day. She's been indulging in fantasies of a more thrilling romantic life, and the cold water of being alone and unemployed doesn't entirely dampen her imagination. She's egged on by three girlfriends who get together to talk about men and sex. Kata has possibilities: she meets David, a medical student; there's Tamás, a stranger on a train who might be good for a relationship and a job. There's also Miki, her brother who's had serious drug problems. Is fulfillment within her grasp?

A short film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter.

János is present at one of Tamás's concerts in the country. After the concert, he takes Tamás's son home in his car, while the couple worry about their son's whereabouts. Later they meet again. Once they played together and were good friends, but János left the band and they had to find a new pianist. The new pianist, Zsuzsa, also meets János. The two of them go to see the amateur film made of the one-time band.

Peter Forgacs' Bibo Breviarium (Istvan Bibo's Fragments) is a look at Istvan Bibo, one of the most revered Hungarian philosophers and politicians of the 20th century. The images in the film consist of found footage from the man's life, while the audio consists of an ongoing monologue that alternates between biographical information on the man and quotes from his writings. Paul Merrick performs the narration on the English translation of the film.

About the life of young people in Hungary in the late 50s, their joys, hopes and dreams. When Joly entered the factory, she wanted to be as cheerful and carefree as the other girls, and she didn't tell anyone that she had a son. And now, when the wedding day with Ferenc is almost set, Yoli walks around sad and confused. She doesn't know how Feri will take the news of her son. She is afraid that Feri, who loves and trusts her very much, will never understand or forgive her. But Feri turns out to be a real man, and Yoli together with little Ali finds her true happiness.

This is a propaganda film about the Hungarian Air Force. The story begins with the love stories of three young amateur pilots, captain Torday, Bandi and Pista.

In a bizarre and decadent society, faceless characters are tirelessly trying to appeal to a body of bureaucrats in order to finally be allowed to have a face. Will they be happy when they can get a nose, a pair of eyes and a mouth?

A wall-painting on Earth is too terrifying to exist, so unknown forces remove it.

based on nightmares and sleep paralysis, on long fights with one's own demons, on understanding it and finding a way to move forward

Adam lives in the poorest part of Eastern Hungary in isolation from society, works as a shepherd on a farm and lives with his police officer father in an oppressive relationship. Hip-hop and rapping is important for Adam, this is the only way he can express his feelings and get rid of his speech impediment. One day he unexpectedly achieves success in a national online talent show, as Larry, with a song he wrote about his father's unforgivable sins. Adam makes it to the finals, but soon realizes that he is unable to rap in front of others. In order to grow up to his popular online alter ego, Adam must break through his inner barrier and face the strange authority of his father.

Edina is a middle aged, aloof intellectual, who ends up at a beauty salon doing a full-on bikini wax. As the process goes, she gets more and more in touch with her inner pain and gradually connects with her suppressed conscious.

Dangerous spies act as representatives of an international recording company to get important plans from the father of an aspiring composer.

Two grooms' fight. Dani gathers teammates. This is how the genius university math teacher, the old, laid back high school friend and the always cheerful and positive uncle Pali get into the team.

Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró Sanyi, although she is more attracted to his silent and modest younger brother.

25 years after spending their holidays at a summer camp in 1980s socialist Hungary, the campers confont the demons of the past.

An action packed, brightly colored film depicting the adventures of a six-year-old boy attending school for the first time. He befriends a little girl, Zizi, who becomes his constant companion in a child's world of discovery.

Three young friends, from the Hungarian countryside, want more sex and excitement in their life. Together they undertake a journey to Lake Balaton, where they hope to find plenty of summer fun as well as a temporary job.

Patika unexpectedly invites her former university classmates to her newly inherited apartment for a get-together for apparently no reason, after eight years without contact. As a good host, Patika prepares dinner, and thanks to the old campus heart-throb Honda, there’s plenty of wine. Once everyone has arrived—including Vica, now a turbo-charged mother of two, and Nóra, a successful artist freshly returned from abroad—it becomes clear that their host does have a pressing reason for gathering them. A very pressing one.

It rarely happens that a parent is not happy that their son is serious, hardworking and interested in nothing but work and the land. Well, our Péter Tamássy is like that. Péter's son is only interested in farming, so the father, who was a playboy in his youth, decides that before Péter gets married, he will introduce him to society a little. And to make sure that the child gets into good company, he entrusts him to his old love, the prima donna Ria. (Honthy Hanna in a wonderful movie role.)

Bela Frankl, a young Hungarian, is taken prisoner by Russia during the First World War, defects to the side of the revolution and some time later, under the pseudonym Mate Zalka, becomes a famous Soviet writer. In 1936, having arrived as a volunteer in Spain, he becomes General Lukacs, forms the 12th International Brigade of non-professional fighters and takes the first heavy battles with Franco's cadre formations...

The tyrannical king is afraid of his people. He can only find peace if everyone wishes him well when he sneezes. Catchpoles raid the country and give orders what the king wants.

In 1923, Andor Weininger, a Hungarian-born artist, musician and leader of the Weimar Bauhaus group, put down on paper the first animated film script for a Hungarian animated film, but the abstract, all-artistic work would not be realised until exactly one hundred years later.

An experimental look at the making of "Katalin Varga" which has more to do with the diary films of Jonas Mekas than with a typical behind-the-scenes documentary.

Where does the feeling of guilt come from? Starting from the account of a medical condition, Farah Hasanbegović resorts to animation to search for the origin of those sensations that accompany us throughout our life, whether we want them to or not. Through eloquent pencil strokes, Ribs is a sensorial meditation on the material dimension of our feelings.

On the night before his wedding Tamás, a young teacher, saves a lonely girl named Teri from committing suicide. Since she has nowhere to go, he takes her back to his apartment and gives her some money. Another chance encounter with the girl complicates Tamás's honeymoon.

One day Novák Erzsébet kindergarten-teacher destroys her papers, cuts her hair and closes her mouth forever. She prepares for suicide namelessly, then somewhere around Normafa she accepts being taken into an asylum.

Imagine one of the most remote wildernesses in the world. Granddaughter Masha and Vladimir, the protagonists of this story from Central Siberia try the impossible to keep their nomadic traditions alive.

A free DVD bootleg from the fans for the fans. Not for sale. 100% free and fully downloadable. It showcases the band performing in Budapest (Diesel Club, August 19, 2010) during their In Solvent See tour. It is endorsed by the band. To all those who have asked about a DVD companion piece to the newest Skinny Puppy live album Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas, this is the answer.

Janka's family is like rotten fruit. It's beautiful on the outside, but the deeper you peel its layers, the less beautiful it becomes.

The village dignitaries go hunting with the new farm manager... What could go wrong?

Lugosi works in the locomotive factory, earning little. He does not feel at ease in the world. One reason for his discontent is that his wife - a tractor factory worker - earns more than he does, and another is that she has even had her innovation accepted, while his has not. And because trouble doesn't come alone, poor Lugosi gets involved in a sabotage case.

The shopkeeper, the king and the poor man get lost in the woods one after the other. A Hedgehog rescues all three, but only after they agree to their conditions...

Three short stories around the number 12. A postman, a taxi driver and a photo developer connected to 12 on different ways.

On January 25, 1979, an oil well in Zsana, Hungary, caught fire after gas rushed into its shaft at a depth of 1,800 meters and ignited. Miners, soldiers, and firefighters worked together to quench the flames but were only able to do so on February 15. The incident garnered nationwide attention through coverage by the press.

A couple has wanted a child for a long time. They are advised by their doctor to avoid stress in order to conceive. The man decides to leave his job. Then life presents him with a moral question.