07/03/2013 - Today a collective film was released in theatres, directed by ten promising young people from the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts

They all graduated in the same year from the University of Theatre and Film Arts of Budapest and decided to pursue one of their ideas from their student days by producing and directing a small-budget collective film centered on the Hungarian capital: ...Meanwhile in Budapest. Their names? Dániel Bálint, László Csuja, Aron Ferenczik, Erika Kapronczai, György Mor Kárpáti, András Pires Muhi, Attila Pluhár, Gabor Reisz, Péter Szeiler and Bálint Szimler (photo). These young filmmakers have already been noticed and rewarded in international festivals: Bálint Szimler, for example (selected in Cannes in 2010 for the Cinéfondation programme) and György Mór Kárpáti (a contender in the short film competition at the Berlinale 2011). 

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Released today in Magyar cinemas by Cirko Film, ...Meanwhile in Budapest is a collection of eight short movies of 8 to 15 minutes, vaguely interconnected and, above all, with a unifying thread comprised of their depiction of current reality in the Hungarian capital. A production under the sign of “Here and Now”, which also works as a manifesto as its authors wish to demonstrate the existence of a new way of producing quality films in Hungary, which are not necessarily “traditional” films, nor amateur works aimed at the Internet. 

In the context of Magyar cinema, which is still struggling to resurface after a dramatic funding crisis (revived since 2012, but whose beneficiaries are at best in production), ...Meanwhile in Budapest could well be a turning-point, and its directors could well follow in the steps of the famous Simo generation, a promotion from the cinema school of Budapest which notably included György Pálfi, Szabolcs Hajdu, Ferenc Török, Dániel Erdélyi and Diana Groó.

(Translated from French)