Ali, the Hungarian Yazidi

Ali belongs to the Yazidi religious community, a persecuted minority in Iraq. With Ali’s life in danger, he escapes to Hungary, where he finds a home, but doesn't lose the feeling that he's an outsider. He decides to mak

A Galant Story

The story of Bálint Balassi, the poet and warrior. The scene is Hungary at the end of the 16th century. The soldiers stationed at the castles of Hungary's border defence-system spend their days with anti-Turkish raids, h

Undisturbed Happiness

Fodor, a script-writer of promising talent finds himself in a difficult financial situation. So he comes out with an absurd idea to make a film of. The director, with several scripts having been refused, likes it.

Hungarian Folk Tales: Pinko

The Devil's son steals and eats a poor woodcutter's corn cakes, so his father orders him to serve the poor man for three years.

Hungarian Folk Tales: The Hedgehog

The shopkeeper, the king and the poor man get lost in the woods one after the other. A Hedgehog rescues all three, but only after they agree to their conditions...

Hungarian Retro 2.

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most cheerful barrack" back then - using contemporary music, interviews, adverts

Hungarian Folk Tales: Little Diodennis

Misadventures of a young peasant boy

The Hungarian Masters of Italian Football

Between the two world wars, 78 Hungarian coaches worked for Italian clubs, and every member of Italy's 1938 World Cup-winning team had a Hungarian club coach. The film follows the careers of two of them, Árpád Weisz and

Magyar retró 3.

Hungarian Folk Tales: The Foolish Man

[Idk man, this season get's really deranged without Marcell Jankovics] A very foolish man is sent on an arrand by his wife, but due to being used by strangers and his own stupidity mixed with some good intentions, his l

A világhírű magyar hordó

Hungarian Folk Tales: Starving Matthias

Poor man Matthias is so poor, that one day he goes into the forest to hang himself. There he meets the Devil and manages to outwit him.

Hungarian Women in the Gulag

For his film Sára interviewed women who as young girls had endured difficult surroundings and constant denigration in the labor camps. The trilogy showcases uniquely female experiences. We will find out what happened to

Magyar csapat - '...még 50 perc...'

Hungarian Folk Tales: The Gold Coin and the Hat

Three foolish students get into some misadventures with an old trickster man, his wife and a corpse...

Magyar népmesék: Hogyan telt a gyermekkorom?

Hungarian Folk Tales: The Two Old Friends

Christmas is approaching. Two poor men try their almost to acquire some food for the Christmas table of their families. During their adventures, they try to cheat each other, because both would like to acquire the entire

Birth of Hungarian Film – The Dance (1901)

The first directed Hungarian film footage shot with actors debuted in Uránia Hungarian Theatre of Science on 30 April 1901. These short motion pictures were not stand-alone works but illustrations for a lecture on the hi

Négy évszak a magyar pusztán

The Puszta is a seemingly less diverse part of the Hungarian Alföld, but it's actually teeming with natural wonders. The treeless plain was developed from a forested plain, and it's one of the last in the Carpathian Basi

Hungarian Folk Tales: Abeles-Kobeles

King becomes obliged to the Devil to give him his only daughter on her 15th birthday. When the day comes, Devil takes the Princess to hell, where she meets a young man called John. Together they decide to escape