KAFF is Hungary’s largest animation film festival. This is where the legendary Water Spider – Wonder Spider “Vízipók-Csodapók” was made, bought by 46 countries and which taught generations of children that both friendship and protection of nature are important.
Animated Hungarian series about a water spider and his friend an European garden spider.Read More »
KAFF is Hungary’s largest animation film festival. This is where the legendary Water Spider – Wonder Spider “Vízipók-Csodapók” was made, bought by 46 countries and which taught generations of children that both friendship and protection of nature are important.
Animated Hungarian series about a water spider and his friend an European garden spider.Read More »
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.Read More »
A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start of his ordeal: he’s confronted with raw reality, which finally brings him to his knees. But music has the last word.Read More »
The Door (Hungarian: Az ajtó) is a 2012 Hungarian drama film directed by István Szabó and starring Helen Mirren. Movie based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Magda Szabo (no relation to the director) – tells the story of a writer and her housekeeper who develop an enduring relationship.
Mirren plays the role of housekeeper Emerenc in the novel which has been adapted for the screen by Istvan Szabo and Andrea Veszits.
The film has been selected to be featured in the competition programme at the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival.Read More »
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A theatre director tries to put on a play with real underprivileged Roma people about their lives but, feeling taken advantage of, the actors leave the troupe to gain a new consciousness.Read More »
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In this refreshing film, Pál Sándor takes the viewer into a girls’ educational institute from the turn of the century. The life of the closed community revolves around strict rules and regularly repeated humiliations, that is, until Emília Odor (Ildikó Szabó) turns up as a new student. Her stubborn, freedom-seeking, rebellious personality thoroughly upsets the well-worn relations. Pál Sándor, director of Régi idők focija/Football of the Good Old Days, Szabadíts meg a gonosztól/Deliver Us from Evil, Ripacsok/Salamon & Stock Show and Szerencsés Dániel/Daniel Takes a Train, once again utilizes his brilliant light touch to sketch out the mood and milieu of a given age, creating heroes with whom it is a pleasure to identify even though they are destined for a tragic fate.Read More »
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This urban odyssey begins with a chance meeting on the streets of Budapest, when the two filmmakers run into Sanyi, a charismatic, unruly 8-year-old who constantly tests boundaries and oscillates between childlike innocence and a sober outlook that belies his age. Over the course of over a decade, the camera captures Sanyi’s growing pains in a cramped, dilapidated apartment with barely functioning parents and a baby sister. Charted by a fiery temperament and an inexplicable attraction to danger, the course of Sanyi’s life seems predetermined as he hurtles toward a dark future. Filmed in the spirit of Cinema Verité, this gripping and gritty doc will have you on the edge of your seat from Sanyi’s first breakneck-speed skateboard ride to his inevitable plummet down the rough roads of adulthood.Read More »
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In a post-apocalyptic Hungarian-Ukranian village where everything is rotten, Ocsenas is the one who helps everyone out. He is only living hero trying to survive against savages and war while inside a love triangle that will define his future.Read More »