Discoveries from Hungary World Cinema

Documentary mini-series discussing the roles and fates of Hungarian born people in the Balkan Wars.

A minimalist absurdist comedy about a martyr and torturers.

Tamás Almási's second documentary about the closing factories of Ózd.

Vienna, 1846. At night, the good-hearted coachman Hammer finds a young woman in labour at one of the gates and takes her to doctor Semmelweis at the women's clinic, whom he knows well. The woman is crazy with fear; mothers die there. Doctor Semmelweis finds no peace because of the surprisingly high number of death-cases at the clinic.

Zsuzsa, Zoltán and Peter have been inseparable friends since childhood. But now they have reached the age where friendship is sometimes replaced by love. A very pretty new girl arrives in their class, and one after another she "screws" the boys. So do Peter and Zoltan. By the time they realise that she is in fact a rather empty-headed girl, the old friendship is over.

Rolla, the Count's daughter, meets István Baracs, a railway engineer, at the village fair and they become very fond of each other. Of course, the count's family would never agree to the marriage, they would only let a noble groom into their house. However, the engineer's valet, Miksa, and the Count's butler, Marcsa, really know how to settle affairs of the heart.

Documentary about young Emil who spends his time tending to farm animals and making cheese in Hidegség.

The members of the Irigy Hónaljmirigy are all fun, likeable characters, even if they are different characters (fortunately), and they have proven themselves to be very good musicians. Not to mention that they are also excellent comedians (just look at one of their series on a commercial channel).

Tamás rents a male escort for the first time. The documentary chronicles the unraveling of two male strangers who meet for pay and more; giving us a glimpse of the service and of the lives it touches through three key locations where escort service may usually take place.

The Three-Hundred-Year-Old Man is the reconstruction of a lost silent film made in 1914 on the basis of an album of 66 photographs kept in the Film Archive. The 50-minute silent film was made to raise money for charity: the aristocratic group initiating the making of the film exploited the popular medium of film to promote a new achievement, aviation. The screenplay was written by Sándor Bródy and Endre Nagy, its actors were young Hungarian aristocrats, many of whom later became notable personalities. Money raised from the film was to go to improve Hungarian aviation and the Polyclinic. The Three-Hundred-Year-Old Man became the first time-travel science fiction film in Hungarian film history. Unfortunately, the film itself was lost in the course of subsequent decades, but it has now been revived from still photographs...

After the name of a recent lottery winner is announced in the newspaper, hundreds of letters are sent to him, asking to borrow or receive some of the money.

The main character, Eszter Tóth, raped by five Russian soldiers in Transcarpathia in 1944 , gives birth to a baby : the bastard of the devil. The story shows the vibrations of the wounded soul of a woman under the pressure of history.

In Ervin Lázár's story, which combines elements of fairy tale and reality, Peti moves the old lion, who goes by the name of Szigfrid Bruckner, into the abandoned barn. Peti later takes pity on the lonely lion and, with Viktor's help, sets out to free Szilvia, Szigfrid's partner, who is imprisoned in a circus. The operation is a success, but Peti's father decides to demolish the barn. Viktor and Gabriella do everything they can to stop the plan, but eventually Peti's father changes his mind and the inhabitants of the boy's imagination can live happily ever after in the abandoned barn.

Soil resounding, then the echo of dripping water submerged and muted in a river’s flow. A young filmmaker floats between old polaroids. Flickers. The recollected and the photographic become the canvas of a colorful intervention. The roughness of splashes seem an obvious reaction to years passing by in two minutes.

Dracula and back! The urgency of having to go to Transylvania as fast as possible to bring back the remains of his own father turns out to be an adventure of a different kind for Martin. What he thought would be a short trip becomes an extended odyssey through the former east block country. Instead of Count Dracula, Martin meets a Romanian couple, Imre and Agi. Involuntarily bound to each other, they start the search. Through Transylvania, through prejudices, mundane worries and emotions, Martin's German bookkeeper sensibilities come face to face with the simplicity of Hungarian-Rumanian life.

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

Professor József Öveges was a famous Hungarian physicist and television personality, who starred in a very successful educational programme, teaching nature sciences for children in Hungarian Television in the 1960s. This movie contains his favorite experiments.

Peter Hutton’s essay on the naturalization of the urban landscape. Voluptuously gray, worn and lived in, the city is like a stage set for an invisible drama.

Munkácsy Memorial Concert from the Palace of Arts A Hungarian painter whose paintings made the whole world bow down before him. Who set out on foot and became the greatest of his time. One hundred and fifty years later, a Hungarian piano virtuoso whose concerts have been seen by hundreds of millions. His music is a bridge between worlds and cultures. An extraordinary encounter in the infinite universe of art. Károly Mécs, Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra , Edina Szirtes, Judit Andrejszki, Gáb Berán.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two kids swap the signs in the men's and women's changing rooms of a spa. So our hero enters the women's changing room. Due to objective and subjective difficulties built into his soul, he cannot simply leave, so he gets more and more involved in the "women's section" of the beauty salon-bathhouse combination...

'A' arrives home to his apartment after a tiring day, but a strange shadow is waiting for him in his bed.