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- A band of samurai sets out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun.
- John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.
- Thérèse grows up with her aunt and cousin. Around 1860 the aunt decides they move to Paris and that her son and Thérèse get married. The joy- and loveless life changes when her husband brings a friend home. The affair turns ugly for all.
- A man wakes up with no memory in a pit full of dead bodies in the wilderness and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer.
- A young man, separated from his family in World War II, disguises himself as a Nazi S.S. Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts.
- Twin siblings enduring the harshness of WWII in a village on the Hungarian border hedge their survival on studying and learning from the evil surrounding them.
- To impress the girl of his dreams, Sam (Ashley Lloyd) enters an old amusement park, where torturous monsters roam the grounds.
- A girl wakes up after a car crash. Her younger brother has disappeared. As she promised him, she boards a cargo ship to find a new life. Then the shady Gábor crosses her path. A surreal trip on the fragile edge of life and death.
- The owner of the flat is 37-year-old Joe, who, on a whim, did not rent out his flat as an office, but was looking for people to live in the rooms. That's how Regina, one of the oldest tenants in the sublet, the charming Marci and the lovelorn Rita found themselves in the apartment. There's Zsófi, a girl with singing ambitions, and Lali, who can never pay the rent on time and is always getting into funny scrapes, and Gábor, Lali's constant accomplice, who is not a tenant of the sub, but the perpetual clown of the group of friends. And a host of other characters who are all part of the society, headed by Hanna, Joe's typical 17-year-old teenage daughter, who would love nothing more than to become one of the tenants of the cool apartment. The apartment community is a group of friends where friendship and togetherness are the most important things. Into this community arrives Aniko, to whom Marci has promised to move into one of the flat's vacant rooms. Here, however, Joe's rules apply to such large-scale things. Will Aniko win the hearts of her flatmates? What does Rita, who from the first moment sees the Keszthely girl as a rival, think of her?
- 1992. Milan Kolarov escapes from Yugoslavia to Hungary. Shortly after that, he gets recruited by paramedics, who are making big money of selling identities of the people died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
- This is the story of present-day Hungary's most famous gay celebrity who openly admits his homosexuality and fights for gay rights in a society where so many alternative values are denied.
- Bucharest, 2009. Twenty years after Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but quite immature guy for his late 30's finds out from his Securitate (Romanian Secret Police) file that he could be the father of a son he didn't know about. Starting his own secret investigation, Tavi is caught by a complicated past that now comes to reveal ugly hidden truths, messing up his life and the life's of the ones close to him. For the first time in his life, Tavi is forced to take really mature decisions.
- A sleepy village in Hungarian speaking Transylvania, the occupants well past eighty years old. The last place you would expect for scandal. Except here the last men left are desperately wooing the 25 widows, the process of which leads to many stories told both shocking and sweet...
- An heir to a shipping fortune wakes up with amnesia. He discovers that his sister has been kidnapped, his father is unwilling to pay the ransom, and Interpol and the Russian mob after him.
- Loulou is a wolf. Tom is a rabbit. As curious as it may seem, Loulou and Tom have been inseparable since they were little. Now in their teens, they live the easy life in the Land of the Rabbits. But Loulou, who thought he was an orphan, learns that his bohemian mother is alive. The two friends set out to find her in the principality of Wolfenberg, the Land of the Wolves. They arrive in the middle of the Meat-eaters' Festival, a yearly get together for the world's great carnivores. Will Loulou and Tom's friendship survive in the land where herbivores always end up as the main course? What incredible secret lies behind Loulou's birth?
- Going to the local market when we visit a foreign city is something we all love to do. More people visit them in one day than all the city's art museums put together. Markets attract us for their colours, smells, people, sounds and taste.
- Middle-age film projectionist still lives with his mother in Belgrade. he is also film aficionado and quite content to be in his mother company. NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia starts and two of them become refugees. After quite surreal journey they end up in New York, of all places. That is were he realizes that he cannot do his old job any more, one he loved so much. While he and his mother were trying to survive, the new age of Cinema Digital Projection started. Some discarded projectors gave him an idea. His new mission in life will be to travel around and show people the magic of the real cinema, created by film strips, mechanical projectors, big screen and flickering light.
- The film deals with the important events of 2006, presenting the background as well. Spring parliamentary elections, autumn speech and publicity, MTV siege, October 23rd at the Astoria. The film takes place in 2017, and the characters (an ex-prime minister, an online journalist and a security guard) also think back to 2006. The location: the Kozma Street prison, where everyone is waiting for their verdict.
- The world of online dating becomes a site for pleasures, fantasies, and tragedy in LOG IN. (Hungarian with English Subtitles)
- As nations around the globe attempt to fight sex trafficking, many consider legalizing prostitution. Two filmmakers travel to ten countries to explore the issue, in an attempt to answer the question of how we can prevent sexual exploitation before it happens in the first place. Though governments are getting better at prosecuting traffickers and providing aftercare to victims, it is time we begin to ask the question of what lies at the root.
- "Overdose" was the champion of champion race horses, he became a symbol of hope to Hungarians after years of social decline, but staking your national mood on a horse turns out to be an unpredictable and risky bet.
- An image of the everyday life of a village in North-East Hungary; harsh but empathetic, without passing judgments. What happens if a dying traditional culture gets mixed with half-modernized circumstances, creating a strange new world?
- The story of Regina Jonas found me. The world's first woman Rabbi lived in Berlin of the 1930s, and her greatest dream was to become a Rabbi. She felt that she was born to be a Rabbi, but women were barred from becoming a Rabbi according to the Jewish laws. I was deeply impressed by her short life story, which was full of struggles. But how can I tell her story, when there is one surviving photo of her and only a few letters? That was the challenge. Rachel Weisz as the inspiring figure Regina, makes this story complete. The use of archive and experimental editing technique adds a magical layer which pulls the audience into this unique story.
- In a hermetically sealed-off safari park in Austria our civilization's moral challenges collide under a magnifying glass: guilt, responsibility, redemption. Fourty chimpanzees survived HIV experiments "serving mankind". Traumatized, highly aggressive and mentally isolated. Today four caretakers manage a unique rehabilitation project, where the victims learn how to become monkeys.
- Szatmárcseke is a settlement with 1600 inhabitants in one of the poorest regions of Hungary, on the Ukraine - Romanian - Hungarian border. Due to the extraordinarily high level of unemployment deprivation is an everyday situation; people make their living by taking part in public employment programs or live on social aid. The Roma minority population is increasing year by year. Their current ratio between school-age children has reached fifty percent. Our film documents the period elapsing between 2005 and 2012 examining how the unexpected appearance of an American Baptist pastor transformed the life of the Gypsy population in Cseke.
- A feature-length documentary, Kvadrat explores the realities of techno DJing, using the example of Andrey PUSHKAREV, a Russian DJ recognized worldwide. Filmed as a hybrid between a road-movie and a music video, the film not only illustrates the festive atmosphere of techno night clubs, but also reveals the lesser known side of this profession: weeks of track selection, lengthy travel, difficult schedule. The film suggests to reconsider the stereotype of a popular musician, to find out whether the artist is happy, to ponder what's most important to him and his audience? Shot in Switzerland, France, Hungary, Romania and Russia, the film omits the typical documentary elements: no interviews, no explanatory voice-over, no facts, no figures. The visuals and the techno music replace them, leaving the detailed interpretation to the viewer.
- A cyberpunk gangbang of machines, rubber, dust, lust, and horror. Mysterious posthuman creatures reclaim space in the darkness that springs from the broken streets and forgotten basements of Budapest's urban landscape opening the gate to the crypt of desire.
- Central European University (CEU) marked its 20th anniversary in 2011 with academic and cultural events including the commission of documentary film by U.S. filmmaker Peter Almond. In CEU20, Almond explores the parallels between the dramatic events surrounding CEU's birth in 1991 and shifting political conditions 20 years later. Intimate interviews and rich historical footage illuminate one of Europe's groundbreaking universities, placing it in within the historical context of challenges to democracy and ongoing political and social transformations.
- People love to laugh at other people's mistakes and stupidity. The viewer should be able to identify with the participants. Videos are presented in which people of different social backgrounds try to find the right answers to relatively easy questions. These people in the videos are the mind blowers. The winner of the show is the team that can guess how the mind blowers' mind works.
- The energetic mayor of a remote Hungarian Roma village is dedicated to put his home on the map and applies for all possible EU-funding. He succeeds in raising money for a bio-gardening project - and for building a tennis court. But it's hard to cause a change in Besence, where 99% of people don't have a job...
- The struggles of a young adult woman, Agnes, who's trying to lead a decent life, while taking care of her mentally ill brother, Attila. When given an opportunity to change her life entirely, and realizing her long forgotten dreams of a musical career, Agnes finds herself reconsidering her life, and her connection to her brother, taking the first steps on a path of self-discovery and facing a moral dilemma.
- A handful of young Iranian wrestlers dream of becoming the next Olympic champion, however it is not just the championships they have to wrestle their way through but the realities of their lives.
- After Zoli and Tamas was defeated by Xamon, the leader of the wraiths, they have to hide. Tamás goes back to his wife Tündi, to start a new life, while Zoli tries to save Kate the other last timeshifter. Meanwhile, Attila and Bence got the order to hunt down the timeshifters. Xamon summons all his wraiths from 2022 to 2011 to conquer the world, and the only weapon that can defeat him is hidden in the Past...
- The four-month long 'film therapy' group combines psychodrama and film making in order to find out if watching film and making reflective films can be used as a therapeutic method to get to know ourselves better. The members of the group have never used a camera before, and the aim of the experiment is to see how the camera can expose the subconscious. How can we show emotions and impressions which are difficult to verbalize, and is it possible to change them in a positive way?
- 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.
- Daughters of Dolma takes you on a riveting journey revealing a distinctively female experience of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. This feature-length documentary brings to the screen not just Buddhist spirituality, but also the fun and unexpected eccentricities of living an ancient form of monastic life in a crazy, modern world.
- Desire builds a spaceship.
- Zoltán Miszori, feels his calling to the service of God with such conviction, that he abandons his studies in forestry and bids farewell to his bride. He chooses instead to live only for his vocation, to be a pastor of the spirits. Once a priest, he takes his love of God to the community in a variety of ways, he serves in a prison, in old people's homes, in orphanages, homeless shelters or at sports events, pilgrimages, or even situations where people are giving blood. Anyone who had a chance to converse with Father Zoltán, remember him saying that it was vital to be instilled with the love of God, faith, and the profound importance of prayers for people's souls. "We found our faith with him", say the people who regularly attended his services. Father Zoli was not a celebrity priest, but God's modest and humble envoy, whose words and deeds always matched one another. He only requested that the following inscription to be written on his grave: A Pastor of Spirits. God's conduit, a mediator between the Lord and his people. Never wanting to convert, he merely wanted to transmit thoughts and point to signs; by doing this, he made us recognise the necessity for self-examination, the re-evaluation of life as a way to become happy and fulfilled.
- Lantos Tamas (Antos Gemes) is a sick, burnt out, one-hit wonder who realizes on a late autumn day that his life, which is unstoppably passing by, got to a dead end and he decides to press the stop button on his dubious life-story's VHS tape and tries to rewind it to the very spot where everything was nice and beautiful. He escapes from the life of the busy city streets, the sugar-free bio-foods, the forbidding medical reports and of course the women, hoping that he'll be able to compose the BIG HIT which will bring him the desired fame and help him to become a shining star for eternity. So he tries to get back on track to his lost childhood happiness in the lake-side house of his most beautiful memories.
- This anthropological documentary introduces the Yezidis, a little-known minority of Northern Iraq, and follows the tour of their most sacred object, the Standard of the Peacock through the settlements of Sinjar Mountain, where the traditional way of life and customs are undergoing a rapid change, due to the political, economic and social shifts of the last decades.