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21–40 of 152 films

  • Toldi

    2022 All audiences 103 min

    by Marcell Jankovics

    Animated version of the famous epic tale by János Arany. Miklós Toldi, an impulsive stripling, commits a careless murder and is forced to go into hiding. He sets out for Buda to dazzle the king with his courage and daring, and he earns both the ruler’s mercy and a knighthood. The film follows him on a journey full of adventures and intrigue between brothers, until young Toldi finally faces the great test, when he wins the recognition he has so long craved before the king.

  • The Wild Boar

    2016 Adults 13 min

    by Bella Szederkényi

    A homeless orphan, an animalistic little kid, escapes the big city into the darkness of the woods. It is there that the kid meets a creature mightier than ever imagined.

  • The Wellspring and the Tower

    2020 Adults 8 min

    by Melinda Kádár

    When the wellspring that sustains the ecosystem dries out, its cry for help triggers a process which uses all of the world’s resources to build a tower. This seems to have a destructive effect on the environment, but the tower has only one purpose: to resurrect the wellspring.

  • The Violet Gorilla

    2017 10+ 3 min

    by Éva Katinka Bognár, Panna Horváth-molnár

    A tiny snobbish tree-frog invites a trio of unusual dinner guests to his splendid treetop mansion: the purple gorillas.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Bálint Bartis

    While stealing cucumbers, a peasant dreams of how rich he could become by selling them. Based on a story by Lev Tolstoy.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • The Noise of Licking

    2016 Adults 9 min

    by Andrasev Nadja, Nadja Andrasev

    Animated short about a voyeur cat, a woman with excessive love for her plants, and a peculiar visitor in a fur hat. Based on the short story ‘Megbocsátás’ by Ádám Bodor.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • The Magic Ball

    2016 10+ 2 min

    by Eszter Molnár

    “This was a school project last semester, finished it during summer and September.”

    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Lesser of Two Evils

    2021 Adults 10 min

    by Máté Horesnyi

    Raw and life-a-like stories which are turning into absurd scenes. The Eastern-Europian mentality and relations exposed through Attila Hazai’s pen.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Hangnail Picker

    2015 16+ 9 min

    by Krisztián Király

    A twenty-something Hungarian guy ponders over the sometimes unpleasant, sometimes funny, but undoubtedly determining experiences of his life so far.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Good Sibling

    2017 7+ 2 min

    by Árpád Hermán

    Short animation about the charming cruelty of brotherly love, based on Noémi László’s poem.

    • Comedy
    • Family
  • The garden of heart

    2022 16+ 10 min

    by Olivér Hegyi

    Dániel Juhász, a young aspiring painter with low self-esteem, is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Coming-of-Age
  • The Fall of Rome (trailer)

    2018 Adults 23 min

    by Balázs Turai

    After the Great War, the few survivors huddle together in the post-apocalyptic paradise of the Dome. There they continue to worry about inflation, interior furnishing and the hordes of mutant frog-people waiting at the gates, eager to devour their children. Despite the danger, the children of Carl venture outside the Dome and confront the Enemy.

  • The District! (trailer)

    2005 Adults 87 min

    by Áron Gauder

    he vulgar, adults-only satire peppered with social critiques and references to prevailing politics, made in the same outspoken, provocative tone as South Park and Beavis and Butt-Head, is a humorous and authentic report card of the backward, post-millennium political and social apparatus of Eastern Europe as seen from the point of view of straight-talking children, that is, from the grassroots.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Crimi
  • by Béla Klingl

    In our short animated film we show you an alien civilizations’s very first visitation to planet Earth. The (fictional) visitation took place 54 years ago, when – to the misfortune of humanity – the participants of the actual alien encounter were not members of the human race.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
  • Tanzonk

    2015 Adults 9 min

    by Sasha Svirsky

    A story about a soldier who fights in a global war between robots and humanity. Once he was injured and robot-woman helped him to get well. They fell in love but humanity as well as robots do not want to accept this love.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Tales of King Matthias

    1983 All audiences 96 min

    by László Ujváry

    EPISODES: The Candid Shepherd / There was only one Dog Fair in Buda/ Joke by Queen Beatrice/ The Cantor of Cinkota / The Kolozsvár Judge / King Matthias in Gömör / Three Billy Goats / Servants of Matthias / Strange Visitors / Matthias Blacksmith / The pumpkin and the four Fools / Birthday Prophesy / Village Judge

  • Take Me Please

    2018 Adults 14 min

    by Olivér Hegyi

    The boy hesitates, but he isn’t strong enough to break up. Finally the girl calls it quits, and when they meet again, the girl is with her new boyfriend.The boy is shocked, he wants to escape, so he tries to hitchhike. The surrealistic journey reflects his mood swings.

    • Drama
  • Symphony No. 42

    2014 16+ 10 min

    by Réka Bucsi

    Based on unconventional narrative, the film presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature. The film premiered in the competition program of Berlinale in 2014, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Oscars.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy