Discoveries from Hungary World Cinema

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

Peter and Kati are doing homework but the lesson is not sufficient to capture the boy’s imagination. In his mind he finds himself in a labyrinth game and is unable to discover the way out of the maze. Kati and the dog Félix set off to rescue the lost boy.

In the main square of a small town, a man wants to take a photo with his camera of the monumental statue of a former presbytery. But an unsuitable bird keeps preventing him from doing so... It turns out that this would be the last chance, because the statue becomes a thing of the past. The short film is framed by Alfonzó's catchy song.

Animated adaptation of Krisztina Tóth's poem "Bálnadal

A girl's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. She decides to wait for her rescuer at the car. But instead of the Prince Charming, someone else turns up on the side of the road...

Ivan and The Parazol gave the biggest concert of their career at Budapest Park in the summer of 2023. The title "All In" symbolizes this: it would have fundamentally determined the band's future if the blackjack had gone wrong.

A “wild animal”’s natural habitat in quarantine.

Anikó and Laci, a middle-aged couple living in deep poverty in a small town of Hungary, hit the 2 million euro jackpot in the lottery. Diving into a life of which they feel is luxury and realizing material happiness, their relationship changes.

A week in the life of 19-years-old Noémi, a first-generation college student who recently moved to Budapest from the country, as she is becoming independent from her controlling mother and starts taking full time shifts at a toy store to support herself. In the meantime, she's facing how hard life is as a woman, especially coming from a working-class background.

The fourth episode of the BP Underground documentary series is about Budapest's underground rock music scene presenting the members of the first and most important underground rock-metal bands, subgenres in the 90s and the 2000s.

Alberto Contador Velasco is a Spanish road cyclist, currently racing for Trek-Segafredo. Winner of the 2007 and 2009 Tour de France, the 2008 and 2015 Giro d'Italia and the 2008, 2012 and 2014 Vuelta a España. He is one of only 6 cyclists to have won all three Grand Tours. One of the best and most successful cyclists of his time.

I work with the interaction of space, and being in it, and the energies associated with them. The state of rest, then tipping over from it, and then returning to it again.

An average day is interrupted by a small change – a hard-headed father makes a small step to get closer to his son.

Free composition movie is that defines the real substance of day to day life with sensation achieved by connecting scenes that are independent from one another. The essence of the work is in the relationship between these scenes; how the connection is achieved among the unintelligible features of the characters due to an influence that is above them – all this in a monochrome world based on Jacques Tati’s work.

Miklós Németh was one of Hungary's most popular politicians at the time of the regime change, and decades later, many encouraged him to come back and become prime minister again. But he withdrew. And not only from public life, but also from the public. However, 30 years after the declaration of the republic, he made an exception with the RTL Club and said yes to our request. He shared his personal memories in front of the camera, talked about successes and failures as well. From the interviews with him, the XXI. 20th century viewers could already see details, for example, about the dismantling of the Iron Curtain or the release of the East Germans. From the documentary 545 Days _ The Prime Minister of the Regime Change, we show from his point of view,

Hungarian documentary mini-series.

The passion and energy of Evgeny Plushenko and Edvin Marton has fascinated millions all over the world. This first-ever exclusive DVD provides an opportunity to see this dream team live on the ice. Evgeny Plushenko - Worlds greatest Figure Scating Talent. Three time World Champion, Three Time European Champion, Olympic Games Silver Medalist. Since 1996 he won 48 Gold Medals, he made figure scating history with 4-3-3 jump combination. Edvin Marton - playing on the worlds best Antonio Stradivarius violin from 1698, Two time Gold Medal winner of the World Violin Competition. Scating to Edvin Marton's music, Evgeny Plushenko won 12 Gold Medals.

An animated collage of the battle between Napoleon and Kutuzov, set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

Short documentary about the First World War.

Zsolt Eross, a famous Hungarian mountain climber fights with the elements in an extraordinary environment- a hospital. After great climbs in the Himalaya he lost his right leg in an avalanche accident. The movie illustrates a moving, human story of an injured person rising back to his feet. His family name means Strong in Hungarian, he shows strength during the recovery period. Few months after the accident he returns to the Himalayas to attempt Cho Oyu, the 6th highest peak in the world, but he had to realize that the accident weakened him more than he had thought.

A woman is born from the waves of the infinite ocean. She accompanies us throughout our lives. She embodies the timeless beauty, peace and tranquility. A dream, the dream of all. And without our dreams we would run completely alone.

1963 animated short by Hungarian director József Nepp

The attractive, 32-year old and single Dora edits scripts for plays and is working on "Dangerous Liaisons." One day when her lover shoves her, half-naked, out on a balcony at the sudden appearance of the wife that Dora didn't know he had, Dora is rescued by a handsome man named Tamas.

In a retro-futuristic world of perfect harmony, emotions no longer exist. A worker follows her daily routine until an anomaly disrupts everything. As she experiences something forbidden, she begins to question the cost of perfection.

LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Belgium face an impossible ask: prove their identity by reliving the worst things that have happened to them. For people who have hidden their queerness their whole lives just to survive, the asylum process demands the opposite: total openness, total detail, to complete strangers. Red Elephant follows those caught in this cruel contradiction, many of whom have fled deeply conservative, homophobic societies only to encounter a system that requires them to narrate their most painful experiences as evidence. The film gets close to the reality of what this process feels like; the waiting, the vulnerability, the absurdity of turning personal identity into a bureaucratic checkbox. Red Elephant is a powerful story about what gets lost when the price of safety is exposing the very thing you were taught to hide.

Seven friends hike to the sea on a hot Saturday afternoon. Lily and Abel arrive first, followed by the others. They all gather for a photograph, but the last moments have already passed before the shutter clicks.

Through the eyes of Olivér, a six-year-old in Budapest, we enter a vivid world where language moves through hands, connection transcends words, and joy comes in many shades. In Our Hands is a sensory journey into Deaf culture, celebrating identity, community, and the quiet power of being seen.

An abstract visual journey into the inner space where the primal urge for evil is born. Real footage transforms through distortion, light fields and organic motion into a pulsating, alien energy. Narrative dissolves into rhythm and transformation, revealing evil not as a character or action, but as an ancient, instinctive force slowly consuming reality.

Moving through herbariums and expedition sites in Portugal, the film reveals the Sisyphean task of data collection and knowledge production. Everyday people set out to find a little more about the world and each new information expands our world infinitely. The title gestures toward an impossible task: to categorise and hold the living world within an archive. Driven by preservation, we are challenged by history and forced to admit that something always escapes our systems. How to Download a Forest is a human story and about how small we are. It slowly becomes clear that the world does not need us to know it, but we keep trying anyway.

The Devil's son steals and eats a poor woodcutter's corn cakes, so his father orders him to serve the poor man for three years.

The stars of the widely succesful Suli series demonstrate what it could have felt like living in Hungary in 1920 at the time of the Trianon peace treaty.

Surprisingly, Domi receives a letter from his long-absent mother. She reveals that she has terminal cancer and she wants Domi to end her suffering by killing her. What's the right thing to do?

The constitutional lawyer Dániel Karsai, at the age of 45 was diagnosed with ALS, a disease uncurable by western medicine. The statistical time until death is 2-5 years but the total paralisis comes much earlier while all mental capacities function on 100% all time long. After a period of deep depression, Dániel found a purpose in life for the time that remains to him. Supported by his family, friends and colleagues, he lodged an application to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg also with the higher mission of starting a meaningful dialogue in Hungary’s deeply-divided society around the painful and controversial issue of the legality of End-of-Life Decisions.

Short documentary

Every night, a child hears the same soft female voice in his dreams. To understand why it keeps coming back, he begins to draw pictures of his dreams. As the drawings accumulate, someone he lost long ago slowly emerges from them.