Discoveries from Hungary World Cinema

Two amateur criminals, Einstein and Shotgun, performs a burglary that goes terribly wrong. Continues into a three-person-hostage situation and media coverage.

István Nemere has been a writer for 50 years, during which he has achieved feats that have left even his peers in awe. He is the author of nearly eight hundred published books. This biographical documentary not only focuses on his professional work but also delves into the personal events behind it, his relationship with nature and animals, his life philosophy, and his romantic side.

An elderly woman's everyday life on the countryside of Hungary.

Desire Dubounet, a fugitive from America, saves the world.

A Hungarian music teacher seeks small moments relief while grieving a personal loss.

Documentary about refugees from Rumania

War forms an impenetrable wall between basketball players.

The venue of this fresh-feeling signal film ending with a bang, made using paper cutout technique, is the infinity swimming pool where, after the swimming competition, unexpected figures hop onto the podium.

The signal film with abstract effect features the figure of a runner holding the Olympic torch made up of pixel dots on checkered paper.

“This is the first of the cartoon films of Mr. Szegedi Szüts, the Hungarian artist whose work has been exhibited in London. The present film uses experiment in broken rhythms, and in abstract patterns of an individual character. Mr. Szüts is now working on cartoons in an English film studio.” - The [London] Film Society, 1933.

Filming of an exam film takes an unexpected turn.

Hungarian animated film.

Hungarian animated film.

The film is a tribute to etnographer Zsuzsanna Erdélyi ethnographer, who collected archaic folk prayers. Through animation, the prayers are brought to life.

The Horthy regime marching into the idyll of childhood with peculiar religious processions, Second World War air-raid sirens tearing adolescence to shreds, socialism propped on the shoulders of Stakhanovists in the shadow of Rákosi banners, and the experience of the ‘most cheerful barrack’ of goulash communism within strict confines: this is the collective fate of generation N.

A woman lives alone in a forest one hundred years ago in Transylvania. She is able to see peoples past and future and that creates trouble. She has been cursed, she can not fall in love... love versus the curse.

A personal experimental documentary. The director began filming about his father and his nomadic lifestyle, but soon his mother became the focus. It is an intimate, close study of the relationship between the director’s parents. According to the mother, she prevented the father from becoming a great artist by forcing him into an ordinary, middle-class family life—but the reality is far more complex.

An imaginative, animated adaptation of Sándor Petőfi’s comedy epic using folk motifs and elements of modern painting, with visual means only. Enemies of the village blacksmith lock him in the church because there is a plot to win over his lover, the pub owner. The blacksmith breaks free, catches the seducer red-handed and a heated punch-up ensues. Finally, the local magistrate arrives and dispenses justice.

Edna sits with her friend Opal, by the grave of her husband Harold, waiting for his return.

A Budapest Filmstudio/Kvali Film co-production.

The film captures the astonishing story about the relationship of a prejudiced elementary school teacher and a self-sacrificing student.

A Berlinale Generation Kplus International Jury special mention short drama.

Augusta celebrates her birthday.

Showder Klub presents Lorán Barna dropping the belt. Popularly known only as the Dog, the standing star will be performing an all-night show. And although Trabarna specialises in the sound of internal combustion engines, he can also talk... although we can't guarantee that what he has to say will be entirely devoid of the sound of a Zsiguli.

Violeta applies her art to create possibilities of seeing the world she lives in. A Brazilian woman seeking, by unusual ways, to get warm through her queer community during Lisbon winter.

The very first live show of Thy Catafalque was recorded in August 2021, during the Fekete Zaj festival in Hungary. 26 Musicians performed 15 songs from Thy Catafalque's discography which is now captured on this unique Blu-ray 'Mezolit - Live at Fekete Zaj'!

A boy loses his mother and tries to go through the process of grieving.

Hajni's period is late. She is afraid of being pregnant, therefore she visits the boy who might be the father of her child. They spend the night together at his house, trying to get closer to each other – in different ways.

Uninvited visitors disturbed an abandoned and lonely man's peace on his fiftieth birthday.

Desiré is forced to play a game of Chess as she is made to run errands to save her family

Uncut news coverage of Viktor Orbán’s 2019 White House visit blares through the televisions of Budapest, where almost 90% of the media is controlled by the Orbán regime. 30 years after the fall of communism, as the Soviet-era architecture is vibrantly refurbished, so is the messaging from the new face of authoritarianism.

a video restitution of a voice recording of a young offender explaining what motivated him to commit a crime

There are around 280 million people in the world with depression - and one depressed teddy bear. Life can be hard to cope with, even for humans. But for Erinbear, ordinary chores seem impossible.

Gábor takes in his seriously ill mother, and when he returns to his mom’s old apartment, he finds a strange photo of his mother. Since he doesn't get answers to his questions from his mother, he starts searching for the picture. The clues lead to Romania, where it turns out that Gábor's mother worked in a Ceausescu orphanage, from which she escaped one day with a baby...

Júlia is trying to find herself after her divorce.

We can gain insight into the life of Anita, who works as a sex worker.

Single by chance?! - this is the title of Fruzsina Ács' solo evening.We asked the comedian what we can expect from the show; Fruzsi first told who the evening was for:Current for singles. It's nostalgic for former singles. And it is preparatory for future singlesugh.The solo evening talks about dating, relationships and, of course, singleness, but, as the comedian says, it also turns out that being single is not always a miserable thing. There are so many bad dates that you choose to be single. Fruzsi talks about her attitude towards having children as a single person, and of course she also talks about the social pressure related to this. We also asked him how he felt about being filmed in public, and how different it is to stand-up with cameras recording his every word and every move.

The film presents an underground punk band that appeared in a small town in Borsod county in the eighties. In the depressing factory town of the forgotten Eastern Hungary, a movement called Privát Nihil started, which resulted in an amazingly high-quality music world. The focus of the film is the frontman of the band, my father, who embodies genius, but he could not enforce it because of his principles, addictions and demons. Gábor Jesse's strong character created a world, a mini-state, where you can take all your traumas and shout them out. But this roar comes at a price.

Rattling, the bus moves through the night. With a style reminiscent of expressionist woodcuts, in daydreamy colours and loving detail, this animated short captures the magic of a chance encounter that brings two people together for a fleeting moment.

Hommage to Pulp Fiction ("Ponyvaregény") and Trainspotting made by hungarian amateur filmmakers.

A night in the life of an exhibitionist man.