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630 articles available in total starting from 22/04/2003. Last article published on 27/11/2025.

László Nemes • Director of Orphan

Interview: László Nemes • Director of Orphan

“This backstory has haunted my family’s lives ever since it actually happened”

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director found the main story and protagonist for his new film in his own family, but simultaneously drew on his own experiences in the 1980s  

31/08 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Orphan

Review: Orphan

VENICE 2025: László Nemes’ visually rich yet narratively uneven film tells a story of fractured families and a wounded nation  

28/08 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

Interview: Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

"My aim was to combine a poetic attitude with the rawness of reality"

Shot in stark black and white, the director's debut feature eschews traditional narrative structures in favour of mood, atmosphere and subtle gesture  

28/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Katalin Bársony • Director of I Saw a 'Suno'

Interview: Katalin Bársony • Director of I Saw a 'Suno'

"The viewpoint of Romani refugee Nasmi and his journey could potentially sensitise people and enable them to feel with us"

Through vérité scenes and quiet moments, the director crafts an intimate portrait of displacement, identity and the hope of reunion  

27/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Documentary Competition

Review: Stars of Little Importance

Review: Stars of Little Importance

Renátó Olasz makes his directorial debut with this film looking at a pair of siblings coming home for Christmas and the memories stirred by this return  

25/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Competition

Review: I Saw a 'Suno'

Review: I Saw a 'Suno'

Katalin Bársony’s documentary, filmed over 15 years, is a rich and emotional picture that explores issues of displacement, identity and injustice  

20/08 | Sarajevo 2025 | Documentary Competition

Review: Blue Heron

Review: Blue Heron

Familial bonds and fragments of memory shape Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari’s stunning, emotionally eloquent feature debut  

12/08 | Locarno 2025 | Filmmakers of the Present

György Pálfi’s Hen to bow in Toronto’s Platform competition

György Pálfi’s Hen to bow in Toronto’s Platform competition

An unorthodox and allegorical live-action tale of a runaway chicken, the Hungarian director’s latest film was shot entirely in Greece  

01/08 | Production | Funding | Germany/Greece/Hungary

Viktor Oszkar's Espionage For Beginners Nagy now in post-production

Viktor Oszkar's Espionage For Beginners Nagy now in post-production

Benett Vilmányi, Daphné Patakia, Zsolt Nagy, Iván Fenyő, Thibault de Montalembert, Julie Gayet and Renan Pacheco all star in the cast of this Filmsquare-steered spy comedy  

30/07 | Production | Funding | Hungary/Belgium/Spain

Bence Fliegauf and Barbara Bernáth • Director and producer of Jimmy Jaguar

Interview: Bence Fliegauf and Barbara Bernáth • Director and producer of Jimmy Jaguar

"Jimmy Jaguar is a bodyless revenge demon looking for justice"

The Hungarian director and producer discuss their film, a mixture of procedural realism with folk horror that blurs the boundary between reality and psyche  

22/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

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