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609 articles available in total starting from 22/04/2003. Last article published on 01/07/2025.

Bernadette Mayer soon to wrap filming on I Never See You

Bernadette Mayer soon to wrap filming on I Never See You

Anikó Für and Benett Vilmányi are toplining Bernadette Mayer’s debut feature film, produced by Kino Alfa and also starring Szabolcs Hajdu and Ildiko Hamori in its cast  

08/12/2023 | Production | Funding | Hungary

Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó  • Directors of White Plastic Sky

Interview: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó • Directors of White Plastic Sky

“We wanted to study the paradox of sacrifice”

First presented in the Berlinale’s Encounters section, the film is a spectacular post-apocalyptic animated feature that deals with key environmental issues and numerous ethical questions  

28/11/2023 | /Hungary/Slovakia

Rozália Szeleczki  • Director of Cat Call

Interview: Rozália Szeleczki • Director of Cat Call

"My basic idea is that the more absurd I make things, the more they somehow reflect reality"

The Hungarian filmmaker details her film, which follows a 30-year-old trapped in a world of her own imagination for whom everything changes when a talking black cat starts courting her  

23/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Review: Cat Call

Review: Cat Call

The first feature by Hungarian filmmaker Rozália Szeleczki is a Sleeping Beauty type of fairy tale about a princess bewitched by both childhood trauma and an enigmatic black cat  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

Interview: Laszló Csaki • Director of Pelikan Blue

“Directors should only make films about the things they know”

The Hungarian director immortalises a train-ticket scam in this animation for adults, the first-ever animated flick to be shown in Critics’ Picks  

22/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Borbála Nagy is shooting The Origin of the World

Borbála Nagy is shooting The Origin of the World

Orsolya Török-Illyés, Vera Sipos and Rozália Székely star in this Lupa Pictures production, which examines motherhood from three angles in Budapest, Berlin and Paris  

17/11/2023 | Production | Funding | Hungary/France/Germany

Szabolcs Hajdu  • Director of Kalman's Day

Interview: Szabolcs Hajdu • Director of Kalman's Day

“We go where the audiences are”

The Hungarian director has made a new chamber film about the nature of relationships, which he himself stars in  

16/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Pelikan Blue

Review: Pelikan Blue

In his tense animated documentary, László Csaki tells the nostalgic story of the travels and adventures of three Hungarian friends in the early 1990s  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Kalman’s Day

Review: Kalman’s Day

Established Hungarian filmmaker Szabolcs Hajdu unravels the frustrations and existential dilemmas of two couples during a midlife crisis  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Critics’ Picks

Review: Power

Review: Power

In his sophomore feature, Mátyás Prikler examines the mechanics of power and morality through the story of a fatal hunting accident involving high-profile politicians  

14/11/2023 | Zagreb 2023

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