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Józsi is sitting on his bed, watching TV. His grandmother is wrapping a gift in the kitchen and coughing. It is just the two of them. On the screen a star is dying and Józsi turns up the volume. He turned eighteen today.
9 year old Sára lives in an old block of flats in downtown Budapest. One day a strange new boy, Balázs moves next door, who can’t stand the bizarre noises of the old house. Sára decides to help him out anyway she can.
19-year old Dani Papp lives with his father Tibor, a sex-obsessed and hedonistic gynecologist who pushes his young son to follow in his footsteps. Dani is his exact opposite, shy and romantic, looking for true love instead of sex. A trip to France to visit his musician uncle helps him to understand his own personality and his relationship to his father.
During their Italian vacation, a mother and her grown-up daughter are struggling to connect to and understand each other. When the daughter realizes her mother's fragility, she takes on a new responsibility. Marble and Lemons is an ode to body changes, femininity and sorority.
Early Hungarian silent version of Franz Lehar operetta about a soldier ordered to return a rich widow to her native country, in order to protect its economy.
A flower condemned to perish fights for its survival.
The magic boxes of the sound merchant captain are stolen from Hiziapisi by a bearded gentleman. With the help of Heziapiszi's Bag of Bones, they embark on a major investigation and find the box containing seven bird sounds in a row. Finally, Hiziapiszi and his companions donate all the bird sounds to a sick little boy to bring the sounds of the forest into his room.
The film employs Hungarian folk patterns of decorating art to express the message, atmosphere and rhythm of a chorus version of five Hungarian folk songs.
An Orthodox rabbi deals with tragedy and a rapidly changing way of life, as secularism becomes the norm.
Report documentary film about the crisis of the Ózd Metallurgic Company
Finally, after several years, here is the continuation of the highly successful Symphonic, which attracted more than 120 000 visitors to the Budapest Arena. The composer-pianist's latest innovation is no coincidence, as the 12 brand new works are almost hypnotic. The double album also includes a gift CD with live recordings of the most popular movements from HAVASI Symphonic concerts, so you can recall the concert experience of this major production anywhere, anytime, even while travelling in the car.
László Bagyoni is forced to flee because he published a newspaper in the small Szekler village without permission. His friend Bence Uz, who lives in the mountains, takes him in. The notary's daughter Leticia arrives in the mountains with a hunting party. Her fiancé, Jonescu, becomes jealous of Bagyoni and the trip ends in anger. Uz Bence, who has made money from the hunt, wants to marry his old lover, Julie, but she has already married someone else. At Bence's intervention, the notary cancels Bagyoni's sentence. Meanwhile, Julis' husband dies and she is left alone with the baby. Julis leaves the child in the care of Bence while she goes to the city to serve.
Central-Europe — The future—uncertain, but already lost. A seer who burns visions of the past and future onto photographic paper. A job that should never be taken.
Maja’s life is finally coming together and her boyfriend couldn’t be more pleased. In the midst of moving out from their student flat, Maja’s evening takes a surprising turn when she stumbles upon an old relative who is without a doubt, dead. Nobody from the family is available to help, so Maja has to deal with it herself. As she waits for the authorities, Sara, Maja’s childhood friend, joins her. Sara’s more than keen on sharing her latest successes.
The director interviews young women interested in renting a room, initially discussing cohabitation preferences. The tone shifts when a young Ukrainian woman arrives, leading to a focus on the stories of those who fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion. The director pieces together their trauma and loneliness, sharing her own memories and videos of happier times, symbolising the collective pain of an impossible return.
An impressive parable where the artist’s creativity is paralyzed by the dull crowd can be seen as a metaphor for a totalitarian system. Cleverly designed animation shows the artist as a tied man whose creativity is hindered by the crowd. A visually attractive film with very interesting editing won an award at the Annecy festival in 1983.
Animated adaptation of the tale by Ferenc Móra in which the old king, on the advice of his long-serving shepherd, arranges an archery competition to decide which of his three sons will inherit the crown. The competitors have to hit the centre of a copper penny on which there is the image of the old king.
FILMED LIVE AT SZIGET FESTIVAL BUDAPEST AUGUST 10, 2007 01. ANGER 02. UGLI 03. DOGSHIT 04. TORMENTOR 05. POLITIKIL 06. RODENT 07. PEDAFLY 08. WORLOCK 09. I'MMORTAL 10. DIG IT 11. AMNESIA 12. HARDSET HEAD 13. FASCIST JOCK ITCH 14. HAZE 15. FAR TOO FRAIL 16. BLUE SERGE PERFORMED BY NIVEK OGRE, CEVIN KEY, JUSTIN BENNETT AND SASHA COON
The story of Béla Váraljai takes place just before the changes, in the late 1980s. How does a talented and unscrupulous restaurateur make a career in Hungary? How much work and energy does it take to achieve your goal? Béla Váraljai proves that it is possible, if you believe.
Let's think outside of the box! The last blue-headed matchstick left in an old matchbox pops out and goes on its journey. After three short adventures it always ends up in the same place, it returns to the same box, but never in the same way. The trilogy is a tribute to Chaplin's classic with its style of object-animated burlesque.
Villő is spending their summer in isolation, dissociating and depressed. One night, the stagnant monotony is interrupted by a dream, a tree appearing from her childhood. Moved by their longing, Villő sets off on a journey to find it.
Viktor Orbán’s government seizes Hungary’s top independent media outlet, Index.hu. Journalists fight back by resigning and forming a new entity but face familiar toxicity. Can healthy communities survive in a corrupt system? Possible answers are revealed through the lives of three ex-Index.hu employees as they navigate challenges.
Guada and Evy, a young couple from Brazil spend their days in Budapest working on long shifts and impossible hours. As the city falls into deep winter, their scattered week leads up to a long night of togetherness.
Flusser presents here theories that focus on the believability of the electronic image, the role of religion and memory, as well as the new language systems and apparatus of the digital avant-garde era. — Television Image and Political Space in the Light of the Romanian Revolution (Lecture, Budapest, the 7th of April, 1990) — On technical images, chance, consciousness and the individual (Interview by Miklós Peternák in München, the 17th of October 1991) — On religion, memory and synthetic image (Interview by László Beke and Miklós Peternák in Budapest, the 7th of April 1990) — On writing, complexity and the technical revolutions (Interview by Miklós Peternák in Osnabrück, European Media Art Festival, September 1988)
The glasshouse is a metaphorical stage for the creator's inner world, in which three characters, two actresses and a director, embody different emotions. They meet here to make a film, but the process has an unexpected effect on all three.
There was Pest fashion in the socialist system, a strange, mysterious grandmother, Klára Rotschild, who could hold a parlor in Paris in the 60s and 70s. There is a mystery today about the reason, and the price for this privilege. He could travel to Paris twice a year, watch the current fashion shows, and memorize the French fashion at home. Klara Rotschild - though not a fashion designer or seamstress, but a tailor - was referred to as the genius of the profession.
The anatomy of a terror attack – and its turning to an everyday banality.
A five-episode cinema version of Chronicle(1982)
Vera gets acquainted with Imre on a tram. Later, she learns that he is the brother of one of her pupils. They meet again. Imre's too passionate courting provokes refusal from the reserved school-teacher.
An elderly man wanders through his memories after passing through a mysterious, dreamlike gate, where wind, snow, and fire awaken lost love, guilt, and missed chances. Confronted by the shadows of his past, he must face what he has been running from his entire life.
Otto works as a conveyor for a food store in Budapest. When his van breaks down during a countryside delivery, he finds himself on an archaeological excavation site. Otto spends one day on the excavation.
Shreds and fragments of film poetry that make its own place on the edge of a document film. The film is a college of dialogue between nature, abandoned country, and human fancy.
Screenplay Written by, Painted and Directed by György Kovásznai Music Compilation and Sound Editor: Péter Bársony Music Performed by Gábor Presser, Levente Szörényi, Zsuzsa Koncz, Kati Kovács, Máté Viktor, the LGT and the Hungária Bands Collaborators: János Czipauer, András Osvát, Miklós Papp, Béla Zsebényi, Katalin Kaim, Klára Kassai, and Frigyes Janotyik A subjective interpretation of the everyday life of the 1970s’ Budapest . It is an intriguing mixture of popular culture (music) and high art (composition of images). Kovásznai is not interested in telling a story; there is no linear narrative, the structure of the film is defined by the movements and transformations of the paintings to the rhythm of the music, generating a fundamentally audiovisual sensory experience.
On a film set inside a decaying socialist-era hotel, a young insomniac actress suffocates under her director’s manipulative gaze. Drawn to the half-dreamed nocturnal world of the hotel’s staff, she infiltrates their secret games by impersonating the long-lost love of the resident bar pianist. Blending haunted melodrama with meta-documentary, Night Method exposes the survival tactics of a Hungarian generation whose self-exploitation mirrors the very toxic patterns they long to outrun.
The Komló settlement was a typical example of how Roma labour was exploited in the 1970s industrial mass production. This collaboration of Roma pupils and their teachers portrays the children’s everyday lives through their own drawings, often translating cruel facts into fairytales.
Pista Rácz, bearer of the title "outstanding workman" is opposed to all forms of sport, and is especially antagonized by Jóska Teleki, a first-class sportsman, who seems to be a drawback for Rácz's brigade in terms of work quantity performance figures.
In the courtyard of an old mill, the grandchildren of the elderly owners are living their best life, when the presence of a newly arrived, mysterious relative slowly begins to creep through the air of the homestead. As the initially temporary state seems to become permanent, the tension mounts, and the shadows of childhood comingle with the fragile love and power relationships of the farm’s inhabitants, amidst the atmosphere of communist Hungary in the 1950s and ‘60s.
“Would I lie to you? All I do is dream of you!” “Don’t.”
Burnt Out office worker, Mark is approached by the desperate father of Dóra who is struggling with ongoing depression, in the hope that Mark's alternative therapy program will help his daughter.