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On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.

A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.

A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But when his sister moves in with him and the two begin a romance, there are tragic consequences.

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.

After witnessing a crime during his night shift as railway switchman near the docks, a man finds a briefcase full of money. While he and his family step up their living standards, others start looking for the disappeared case.

A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

An anthology of short film projects by different directors, unified by the common theme of the European Union.

Portrait of a young unstable man, unable to find happiness with a woman. Once a factory worker and nurse. Plays the violin, get kicked out of music school. Becomes a disc jockey.

Revisits of locations on the Great Hungarian Plain - the puszta - that were used in Tarr's Sátántangó and Werckmeister harmóniák. Recitations of short lyric poems by Hungary's national poet Sándor Petofi. The film is shot in color.

An illuminating and extremely rare documentary profile of one of the great filmmakers of our time, Bela Tarr. Filmed during the production of The Turin Horse, his final film, Tarr Bela: I Used To Be A Filmmaker features clips, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with longtime collaborators such as Mihaly Vig, Erika Bok and Tarr's wife and co-director Agnes Hranitzky.

Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter.

In the closed world of a Catholic monastery shortly after World War II the post-war insecurity exacerbates the walls. A new world order has arrived. The monastic life begins to break down as some of the monks start to morally decline.

The last ship (Utolsó hajó) is leaving the quay. Sirens are sounding.

Self-narration synchronized with bathing. The scene taken in front of the face. A young woman who volunteered to be a prostitute because of her life. A clerk who is at the bottom of the society with distorted sexual experience. An old cleaner who loves to learn and discover new things all her life, and although she has not realized her dream of becoming a teacher, she still loves her life. Perhaps the so-called in-depth excavation has not been done in this film, while we can certainly see an avant-garde attempt.

A colorful adaptation of the operetta by Zoltán Kodály.

A young architect learns that building apartments for the working class is more important than designing luxury dwelling places for the rich.

Lint and his lover are sailing and making fun absent-mindedly at Lake Balaton when the anchor suddenly gets stuck in a bomb in the mud. Lint gets hurt while fussing about under the water. A strong storm breaks out when they reach the shore. In the local restaurant the man recalls his memories of war.

Eighteen years after the 1948-49 revolution and war of independence, politicians - as they have always done since then - are trying to turn the memory of Sándor Petofi, who became a symbol of the revolution, to their advantage. The politicians of Hungary, who were preparing for a compromise, revisited the sites, sought out eyewitnesses, with whom they tried to recall the events. And as so often, facts and "political intentions" have clashed since then.