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- An inspirational musical story of the legendary Hungarian ensemble "Kaláka" as members go on a trip from Budapest to Cartagena, carrying with them more than just instruments - they carry the soul of a poem, tracing it back to its origin.
- A documentary film about the transformation of an exile community nearly twenty years after the end of the Cold War. This film is about growing up in an exile community in the West, developing a double-identity, and becoming a hyphenated-somebody. It's about learning to have two homelands at the same time - one in real life, and the other imagined and maintained by parents who were forced to flee. It is about a first generation of children whose parents lived abroad longer than they originally expected to, and who never really assimilated. The story is told through an unlikely, albeit dramatic reunion - one which involves a Hungarian rock opera performed in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California by a cast of 40-something Hungarian-Americans. The original cast, including the film's director, meet in the exact same spot they performed Stephen, the king 25 years ago, as Hungarian scouts during summer camp in 1984. That summer the Soviets still had tanks stationed in Hungary, and the country was isolated behind the Iron Curtain. Many of these scouts had never been to Hungary, where their parents were born. The reunion of this original cast, now living all over the world including Budapest, makes for an emotional and hilarious portrait of one of many 'incubators' operating in the U.S. and Europe over the years. They're meeting not only to reminisce, but also to figure out just who they've become, twenty years after the 'Motherland' was liberated.
- While planning their father's funeral, two sisters try to find out what he did as a freedom fighter in Hungary in 1956. The journey veers off course when they realize their father might not have been the hero they thought he was.
- At the height of the Cold War, a group of American-Hungarians were ready to fight for freedom in a homeland they barely knew. Now pensioners, they hold an unusual class reunion. A film about having two homelands - and one sense of justice.
- Eyewitnesses to the first and most significant uprising against the Soviet Union share their personal stories of survival, emigration and resilience.
- An intimate portrait of the Hungarian community in Cleveland, Ohio where 2nd and 3rd generation children still speak Hungarian and uphold the traditions of a 'motherland' they have never lived in.
- Using personal film and photo archives and addressing issues of cultural identity, Heritage portrays the generation who fled Hungary after the Revolution of 1956 and who made their home in the United States.
- What does the Hungarian revolution of 1956 - the Communist bloc's first major uprising against the Soviet Union - mean to young adults whose grandparents were even too young to remember it?
- László Hudec, a Central European architect who fled the vicissitudes of Europe in the early 20th century, built the first skyscraper in Asia. This very personal story is told using Hudec's own 16mm film footage, photographs and letters.