Known for Acting
Can we move on if the person we have lived a life with ceases to be with us? Kati moves out of their home after the loss of her husband. As the small apartment that once served the two of them slowly empties, Kati clings to a memory they shared.
Pragma is a mother-daughter story set in the course of a day, in which the repressed tension between Juli and Lili and the lack of real, attentive love that the girl would need from her mother is symbolised by the daughter's inability to eat her mother's cooking without being sick at their own birthday lunch. A drama with some absurd. At the core of the dysfunctional relationship dynamics is none other than the grandmother, who raised the mother in a very oppressive way, with difficulty expressing unconditional love.
Zsófi, a rebellious teenager, lives in a tiny flat with her little sister, Mesi, and her unstable mother, Bea. Zsófi discovers late that she is pregnant and decides to give up her baby through open adoption to an infertile couple. Bea cannot accept her daughter’s decision, but she does not realize that neither Zsófi, nor the circumstances, are suitable to welcome a newborn. Zsófi has always had to behave like a grown-up, working and making sensible decisions, instead of her mother and for her sister. She is still in high school and her only advantage is her table tennis career, for which she works assiduously. She plans the adoption thoroughly with the help of a social worker. Following the birth, she is given six weeks by law to change her mind and ask for her child back. She seems to be able to control her feelings ruthlessly and continue towards the goals she has set. At the same time, her maternal feelings intensify, doubts arise, and she slowly begins to question her decisions.
33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone. As he's trying to pick up the pieces, he begins to realize what makes this current society so confused, which gives us a highly subjective view of Hungary's present.
Relationship dramedy about an everyday couple adventuring through the confusing thrills of non-monogamy.
"Everyone here wants a new bum, new tits. What do you hate so much about yourself? Or maybe your husband?" A 66-year-old woman, Dorottya, or Mimi, receives a gift from her husband, a plastic surgery coupon, to try to look younger. The film is a romantic comedy about the decisions of an ageing woman, her unexpected encounter with a man, the possibility of a fresh start, while social prejudices about the elderly are shattered.
The story of three women - a famous prostitute, her housekeeper and their new maid - living in Budapest of 1910s, whose passionate, bizarre and complex relationship can only lead to one thing: murder.
Áron stands in his life as an average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree, and a recent break up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job seeker and while Áron is agonizing on his lost love, he is always interrupted by something; it seems like he’s not the main character in his life.
1956. Three Hungarian friends hijack a plane to escape from the Iron Curtain.
Variations on relationships in a New Year Day atmosphere set in a huge and rundown 1980s style hotel awaiting demolition by Lake Balaton, Hungary. Three women and five men in various ways.
Hungarian TV-movie, adaptation of a drama by Géza Ottlik.
