Known for Acting
Balázs Szendőfi's nature documentary about the Apuseni Mountains explores an area where many regions are still somewhat white spots, both in terms of scientific exploration and public awareness. Located near Romania’s western border, and thus close to Hungary, the Apuseni Mountains lie at the boundary between Partium and Transylvania. Numerous rivers, including the Berettyó, the Criș rivers, and the Arieș, flow through this 145-million-year-old mountain range. The most diverse karst landscape in Europe is still entirely shaped by water. It is a world of cave entrances as high as twenty-five stories, chasms that yawn hundreds of meters deep, underground glaciers, and waterways that rise and fall below the surface. The landscape speaks through the narrator’s voice and, while presenting a fairytale-like wilderness, it also confronts us with the harsh and drastic ways in which we are destroying even the untouched nature of these inaccessible mountains, leaving less and less of it behind.
The story takes place on Valentine's Day in no man's land, one of the craziest days of the century, when everything is turned upside down, the turn of seemingly random events slowly connecting together.
1979. Two teenage girls from the countryside decide to run away from their high school dormitory to Pest. Sára and Cicus, as teenage girls do, prepare to change their lives for the better. They have no money, no car, no plan, but nothing can stop them.
A couple is role-playing, but she falls out of character when she takes over his sentences. They both reminisce about the past and end up on the brink of a break-up, where she makes one last attempt, but whether they will succeed in staying together remains to be seen.
Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.
The film is about the lack of human touch. The dystopia is set in a world where an unknown virus makes people unable to touch each other. Mother, father, son: we confront the problem through a Hungarian family, and search for a solution with them in this extraordinary road movie. It is no coincidence that the story takes place in winter. And it is no coincidence that it takes place by Europe's largest lake. Where the landscape is icy and cold and blue and white. And only in flashbacks do we find ourselves in the warm summer. When all seemed well.
Alex is trying to bring back his dead girlfriend, Linda, from the Other Side through an obscure castle, where people can visit their loved ones. Suddenly, a plan occurs to him in the castle. He meets Lala, who got tragically stuck in transit for long years. She collects travelers’ soul for the castle to reduce her own years. Alex plans to trick Lala to the Other Side and leave her there in exchange for Linda. The lovers unite on the Other Side, but death cannot be fooled, Alex’s misdeed does not remain unpunished.
Ever since she was a little girl, Anna has dreamed of one day becoming a famous actress. But when Bob arrives in Hungary in the summer of 1988, she is suddenly confronted with the sacrifices she must make for the American dream.
We follow Bódi Mária Magdolna through two days of her life in rural Hungary during World War II.
2030, Budapest. In an empty cinema, two strangers (a boy and a girl) sit next to each other and start chatting. They soon realise, their encounter is far beyond coincidence...
The Death Prosecutor (...) [focuses] on a significant court case in the period of the post-1956 retaliations, through the true story of a newly graduated prosecutor, Endre Grátz. https://english.nmhh.hu/article/195551/Online_media_has_gained_ground_as_a_source_of_information_on_the_Hungarian_parliamentary_elections