COMING OUT
2013
Directed by
DÉNES OROSZ
Cast
SÁNDOR CSÁNYI, KÁTYA TOMPOS, GÁBOR KARALYOS
Producer
GÁBOR KÁLOMISTA
Runtime
92 MIN
Genre
COMEDY
HEAVENLY SHIFT
2013
Directed by
MÁRK BODZSÁR
Cast
ANDRÁS ÖTVÖS, ROLAND RÁBA, TAMÁS KERESZTES
Producer
ISTVÁN BODZSÁR
Runtime
100 MIN
Genre
BLACK COMEDY
SYNOPSIS
Heavenly Shift uses dark humor to tell the story of a young paramedic, who gets introduced to the night life and to the cruel, but eternal truth: death does not select, man does.
MILÁN the half Serbian, half Hungarian guy deserts from the Croatian army in 1992 to Hungary. He gets a job for himself at the Hungarian paramedics. He has two unalterable, steady collegues on the emergency ambulance KISTAMÁS the driver of the ambulance and FÉK DOKTOR the leading paramedic of the team.
While they are saving lives, sometimes they allow old people or mortally ill to die, or indeed it occurs that their death is hurried by them. MILÁN soon finds out that there is a business side to the illegal euthanasy. In order to finance his fiancée’s rescue from the war MILÁN needs money, so he makes a deal with his compan-ions. He gradually becomes involved in the horror and sin.
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SYNOPSIS
What do you do when you find you’re not the man you thought you were?
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. But then something happens and he is shocked to discover his growing interest in the female of the species. Coming Out is a daring comedy that examines the question of otherness in a unique way.
AURA
2014
Directed by
ZSOLT BERNÁTH
Cast
PANKA KAPÓCS, PÉTER DUBAI, KRISTÓF SZÉNÁSI
Producer
MÁRK KIS-SZABÓ, KÁROLY VÁCZY
Runtime
80 MIN
Genre
YOUTH /SCI-FI
SYNOPSIS
Four kids (Tokyo, Pete, Adam and Esther) wake up in their stranded car in an abandoned field to realise that the sun has failed to rise. As if that wasn’t strange enough, they then discover that the area around them is enveloped in a barely visible bionic “aura”. The aura reacts to their touch, and mysterious things soon start to happen: the kids find seashells in and around the car, the smell and the sound of the ocean fill the air, and long lost memories start to materialise in the front of their eyes. Rainfall from nowhere, unexplainable noises, mysterious messages and a series of hidden clues force them to begin an otherworldly investigation that reveals much more than they imagined, when they unearth forgotten secrets rooted deep in the very origins of mankind. And these secrets have direct consequences not only on their own lives – but on the survival of our planet as we know it.
LIZA, THE FOX-FAIRY
2014
Directed by
KÁROLY UJJ MÉSZÁROS
Cast
MÓNIKA BALSAI, DAVID SAKURAI, PIROSKA MOLNÁR
Producer
ISTVÁN MAJOR
Runtime
108 MIN
Genre
BLACK COMEDY
SYNOPSIS
Fox-fairies are evil demons from Japanese folklore, who rob men of their lives. Liza, a 30-year-old nurse, goes in search of love, but her ill-fated admirers all die on their first date. Liza has taken care of Marta, widow of the former Japanese ambassador, for the last 12 years. It’s her birthday, and so Liza goes to a Mekk Burger’s to find romance. While she’s away, Marta gets killed by Liza’s imaginary friend, Tomy Tani, the ghost of a Japanese pop singer from the 1950s. Jealous relatives report Liza to the police for murdering Marta to inherit her apartment. Sergeant Zoltan is put on the case. The policeman rents a room from Liza so he can keep a closer eye on his suspect. Zoltan secretly repairs a stack of faulty fittings, very nearly gets killed in the process, and falls slowly in love with Liza. Liza gains confidence and begins to look better when she takes tips from a women’s magazine, but all her dating efforts end in fatal accidents orchestrated by Tomy Tani. Liza is convinced that she has become a fox-fairy, a deadly demon from Japanese folklore. The battle for Liza’s life begins between the mysterious pop singer and Sergeant Zoltan. A peculiar and poignant comedy set in a fictionalized 1970s Hungary with a capitalist system… Liza, The Fox-Fairyis a sarcastic fairy tale for grownups.
AGLAYA
2013
Directed by
KRISZTINA DEÁK
Cast
ESZTER ÓNODI, ZSOLT BOGDÁN, BABETT JÁVOR
Producer
ANDRÁS MUHI, EWA PUSZCZYNSKA
Runtime
116 MIN
Genre
DRAMA
SYNOPSIS
In the hope of a better life the Hungarian-Romanian family of circus artists escapes from the Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania to the West int he early 1980s. If they want to stay in the ring they have to come up with something exotic. The mother devises a special act: she hangs by her hair in the circus dome. However, her daughter Aglaya gets terribly worried that her mother will fall to death, and this fear becomes an everyday burden for her to bear. Yet one day – following the family tradition – she herself becomes „The Woman with Hair of Steel”. The story is about this family’s enforced interdependence, their eventual break-up and the joy and curse of belonging together – all seen from the viewpoint of the young Aglaya.
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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO TIMI
2014
Directed by
ATTILA HERCZEG
Cast
ANDREA OSVÁRT, KORNÉL SIMON, SIMON SZABÓ
Producer
GÁBOR FERENCZY, ATTILA TÔZSÉR
Runtime
100 MIN
Genre
ROMANTIC COMEDY
SYNOPSIS
It all starts at a high school reunion. Dani was always the good guy at school, and he’s about to get married. He bumps into Tímea Hajnal, who is now a top model, but she’s on the rebound and trying to forget a humiliating break-up. It only takes a couple of glasses of wine and they fall into each other’s arms. No big deal, it could happen to anyone. But there’s one slight problem – Bögöcs, the class bad boy, has recorded the whole unfortunate incident on his mobile phone. The hideous Bögöcs now thinks he has what he needs to achieve his teenage dream of scoring with Tímea Hajnal. He threatens to show the video to Dani’s fiancée if Dani doesn’t fix it for him to get the girl. The pressure soon has an impact on Dani’s relationship with his bride-to-be, who swiftly transforms into something of a she-devil. The wedding day’s approaching, and Dani has to act...
THE EXAM
2011
Directed by
PÉTER BERGENDY
Cast
JÁNOS KULKA, ZSOLT NAGY, GABRIELLA HÁMORI
Producer
ISTVÁN BODZSÁR
Runtime
89 MIN
Genre
DRAMA
SYNOPSIS
The 1956 Revolution has fallen. Terror reigns. Appointed by the Soviets, the new prime minister – a very paranoid János Kádár – orders that each and every National Security officer’s loyalty be tested according to new and rigorous directives. Jung (30) is a super-ambitious cultural NS officer living undercover as a private teacher. Jung’s apartment acts as a safe house where he meets agents and informants on a regular basis. Jung's task is to gather information and forward it to his superiors. Markó (50) is Jung’s immediate superior, and also his only friend. Now, Markó, a war hero and a legend amongst the officers, is ordered to monitor Jung’s apartment and activities for a day to test his friend’s loyalty to the new regime. What sets out as routine surveillance takes a wild turn when Markó uncovers disturbing secrets in Jung’s life; secrets that can easily destroy the careers of both men.
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IN THE NAME OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
2012
Directed by
ZSOLT BERNÁTH
Cast
KRISTÓF SZÉNÁSI, ÁDÁM UNGVÁR, NIKOLETT KUGLER
Producer
KÁROLY VÁCZY
Runtime
99 MIN
Genre
CHILDREN / FANTASY / ADVENTURE
SYNOPSIS
Two boys, die-hard fans of Sherlock Holmes who call each other Holmes and Watson, and a sassy tomboy, Ira are about to have the adventure of their life during the summer school holiday. We are in a small country town where strange things happen but the adults do not take any notice of it. More and more kids disappear into unknown, only to appear later, seemingly unharmed. But they are somewhat different, changed, transformed. Watson, the over-energetic geek-type has started his own investigation before but did not get very far. Stepping into the investigation immediately brings creepy results: a witness confesses to have seen a monster kidnapping one of the victims, and on one of the school photos someone has marked the next victim to go. They bump into the enigmatic, sassy Ira Adler, whose father was investigating similar disappearances years ago, until he himself vanished, only leaving a mysterious circus ticket behind: Circus Infractus Somnius, the Circus of Broken Dreams. The investigation about the circus leads to other secrets and there is no way to stop anymore.
FILMS IN PRODUCTION
THE DISTRICT! 8D
2011
Directed by
ÁRON GAUDER
Original Voice
GYÔZÔ SZABÓ, L.L. JUNIOR, DORKA GRYLLUS
Producer
ERIK NOVÁK
Runtime
82 MIN
Genre
ANIMATED COMEDY
SYNOPSIS
The District! – literally, “Eightdistrict” – is an “animated ghetto film”. It takes place in Budapest's notorious District Eight, the local “Harlem,” home to a relatively large gypsy and immigrant population and a center of East European prostitution, populated by the urban, post-socialist, ghetto stereotypes: a white-trash pimp and the group of prostitutes he manages; an accented Chinese restaurant-owner and his teenage son, who is obsessed with martial arts; an alcoholic but charming, Jewish plastic surgeon and his geeky son; members of the Ukrainian mafia; corrupt and dumb policemen; and, most prominently, members of an extended gypsy family.
ARGO 2
2014
Directed by
ATTILA ÁRPA
Cast
LAJOS KOVÁCS, PÉTER SCHERER, LUKÁCS BICSKEY
Producer
JÓZSEF ÁRPA, ATTILA ÁRPA
Runtime
105 MIN
Genre
ACTION / COMEDY
Budget
1.45M EURO
SYNOPSIS
Hungarian small time crook, 70 year old Tibi Balog gets out of prison after 10 years, but he didn’t change a bit. When a Japanese crime syndicate hires him to aquire a Hungarian invention – the world’s first floppy disc – Tibi puts his band of retarded thugs back together and the action starts. As expected, Tibi completely screws up the job and becomes the target of Japanese Assassins, a very angry Gypsie family and the entire Slovakian Army. Gags and action and no political correctness at all. The Hungarian heat is on.
AFTERLIFE
2014
Directed by
VIRÁG ZOMBORÁCZ
Original Voice
LÁSZLÓ GÁLFFI, MARCI KRISTÓF
Producer
FERENC PUSZTAI
Runtime
95 MIN
Genre
DRAMA
Budget
945.000 EURO
SYNOPSIS
The story portrays a pastor’s family and focuses on the relationship between the father and his son. The father is now dead and the son has to work out what’s keeping the annoying ghost of his father in the earthly dimension. He takes advice from a professional medium and starts to sew up a series of loose ends to set the ghost free. Such an unusual grieving process finally affects the life of the whole family.
CAR PARK
2014
Directed by
BENCE MIKLAUZIC
Cast
FERENC LENGYEL, TIBOR SZERVÉT
Producer
IVÁN ANGELUSZ, PÉTER REICH
Runtime
100 MIN
Genre
DRAMA
Budget
1.01M EURO
SYNOPSIS
The story takes place on an empty plot of land surrounded by apartment buildings in the very heart of Budapest. This is the car park where LEGIONNAIRE is king. For him, this small square of land is the centre of the world; and this is where a family of blackbirds live, and he has become very fond of them. But a dark shadow spreads across Legionnaire’s perfect little world when a ginger cat appears on the scene and sets its feline sights on one of the adult blackbirds. And then, as if none of this were bad enough, IMRE pulls up in his 1968 Ford Mustang. Anyone can park wherever they like, except for one particular spot: an area sheltered by a roof where Legionnaire has buried a little black-bird. But Imre is determined to secure this parking space at any cost. Legionnaire has a double battle on his hands: with the ginger cat that gradually exterminates the blackbird family, and with Imre who is not used to getting no for an answer. We soon see that their war is no longer about where a man can park his car, but rather a desperate struggle between two very lonely figures who are forced to face the lie they are living and the scars they carry from their past, as they learn to abandon the very things they once thought constituted the meaning of their lives.
MIRAGE
2014
Directed by
SZABOLCS HAJDU
Cast
ISAACH DE BANKOLÉ, RAZVAN VASILESCU, ORSOLYA TÖRÖK-ILLYÉS
Producer
ANDREA TASCHLER, GÁBOR KOVÁCS
Runtime
110 MIN
Genre
DRAMA
Budget
1.90M EURO
SYNOPSIS
Francis Boyo is an African footballer in the twilight of a long career, who now finds himself playing in a small town in Romania. They lose a game, and his teammates suspect him of throwing the match for money. One thing leads to another and he decides it might be a good idea to go into hiding for a short while. Francis calls in a favour from an underworld acquaintance called Albert, who arranges for him to stay deep in the remote Hungarian countryside with a Romanian stockman by the name of Cisco. It doesn’t take Francis long to realise that he is trapped in what amounts to a modern-day slave camp, where men and women are held captive and forced to do hard manual work. The days go by and Francis begins to feel a strong attraction to Cisco’s girlfriend, Anna. Cisco is paranoid and protective by nature, and he is quick to spot the animal magnetism between the black footballer and his girlfriend. Francis manages to make his escape but gets desperately lost in the unfamiliar landscape. He is near death when Cisco’s men find him and take him back to the farm, where Anna helps Francis recover and their relationship evolves. Cisco’s increasing jealousy makes him both cruel and unpredictable. Francis tries to make a break for a second time in the hope that he won’t lose his way again.
NO MAN’S ISLAND
2014
Directed by
FERENC TÖRÖK
Cast
JULI JAKAB, ESZTER BÁNFALVI, TAMÁS MOHAI
Producer
PÁL SÁNDOR
Runtime
100 MIN
Genre
DRAMA
Budget
1.15M EURO
SYNOPSIS
Vera is a cab driver who has been saving up for years to buy a house and settle on No Man’s Island in the Pacific and eventually escape from the world in which she lives. Zoli has what it takes to become a professional basketball player, but beats a cowardly retreat from his own talent. These two youngsters, each on the run in their own way, are then joined by Mia, the runaway bride. Their three lives clash and intermingle as they journey towards an nexpected solution. The film is a modern fairy tale about young people in search of true happiness who, through Mia’s ethereal purity, come to love themselves and find a way to realise their dreams.
MOM AND OTHER LOONIES IN THE FAMILY
2014
Directed by
IBOLYA FEKETE
Cast
ESZTER ÓNODI, TIBOR GÁSPÁR, JULI BÁSTI, DANUTA SZAFLARSKA
Producer
GÁBOR GARAMI, NICOLE GERHARDS, KALIN KALINOV
Runtime
100 MIN
Genre
FAMILY / DRAMA
Budget
1.60M EURO
SYNOPSIS
A zany tale of a family in the 20th century. Four generations of “fools”, with Mother in the focus, who has lived 94 years and moved 27 times in her life. Moving was her only means of dealing with trouble, danger or conflicts. In fact, it was History that chased her on, all over the country and throughout the horrible century. She was a born non-conformist. With incredible luck, she found Father, who had as much courage to live as she had. The world twisted and turned around them, faces swirling, disappearing and reappearing, while they kept moving on, shoulder to shoulder, happily oblivious to it all. They were armed against the world: their sense of humour, integrity and faith in each other helped them pulling through. In short, they were free people in a country that was anything but free. At the demented age of 94, Mother tells the story to her daughter: a playful, heart-warming and occasionally heartbreaking span of hundred years.
PAW
2014
Directed by
RÓBERT PEJÓ
Cast
ZSOLT TRILL, TAMÁS KERESZTES, LÁSZLÓ SZACSVAY
Producer
LÁSZLÓ KÁNTOR
Runtime
100 MIN
Genre
DRAMA
Budget
1.27M EURO
SYNOPSIS
Zoltán Fehér works as an electrician on the trams, and he and his wife, Eszter, are just about to have their first child. Then an old friend of Zoltán’s dies unexpectedly and he suddenly finds himself looking after a young German Shepherd puppy called PAW. Zoltán goes on to spend every second of the little free time he has with Paw, and soon trains him to become an excellent search and rescue dog. Now happy to put Paw to work, Zoltán founds the “Hercules Special Rescue Team” and they begin to respond to calls from all over the country. Things get tough for Zoltán as he battles to pursue his new passion and adapt to family life as a father. He is fired from his old job for missing work after rescuing people and very nearly losing his own life in the process. It’s all a little too much for Zoltán, who eventually decides that it’s time to give up, but before he does, he wants Paw to take an official canine qualification as a registered search and rescue dog. Paw passes the exam and the team are soon reunited, and a call comes in from Romania. The city of Brasov has been struck by a massive earthquake, leaving hundreds of homes in ruins. 82 hours have passed and the Hercules Team refuse to leave the rubble long after the rest have given up the search for survivors. And then, Paw finds a four-year-old girl under the debris of a collapsed building…
SWING
2014
Directed by
CSABA FAZEKAS
Cast
MARI TÖRÔCSIK, ESZTER CSÁKÁNYI, ESZTER ÓNODI
Producer
ISTVÁN BODZSÁR
Runtime
110 MIN
Genre
COMEDY / MUSIC
Budget
1.44M EURO
SYNOPSIS
SWING is the story of three generations of women, an all-girl singing group, bound together by a passion for music… and a need for quick cash.
RITA (50s) just got dumped by her rich husband for 20 years. She’s off and ready to come out of her ebony tower, and start a new and exciting life just by herself, making up for the time wasted. KATI (middle 30s) is a single mom, waiting tables, getting fired and hired again and again. Always on the brink of bankruptcy. PETRA (20s) is clueless. Starting off in life, she’s new to the games people play around her. Petra’s ambitious, flirtatious, erratic. Now, these three strangers are brought together by EMMI (70s), a lovable rascal of a lady, desperately in need of an all-girl singing group for a winter tour in the country-side. The girls got the talent, and sure they all need the money – but can they get along? They all got the style – but will they make a good team? Can they earn the respect of the men around them – or is it only about earning quick cash?
ZERO
2014
Directed by
GYULA NEMES
Cast
KRISZTIÁN KOVÁCS, MARTINA KRÁTKÁ, UDO KIER
Producer
GYULA NEMES
Runtime
90 MIN
Genre
DRAMA
Budget
1.30M EURO
SYNOPSIS
N is 33 years of age and works as the director of a factory where fake honey is made and bottled for mass distribution. But the day that he gets to taste real honey is the day that his life changes forever. He abandons his old life, sets up home in a remote forest and starts working with bees in a real and meaningful way. The harmful effects of a newly constructed mobile phone tower drive his bees away and so N establishes an environmentalist commune and starts a long legal fight against pollution to save his bees. But then he falls in love with L, the daughter of the director of the mobile phone company. The legal challenge fails, so N leaves his farm and L joins him. Angry and alone, N and L start attacking everything that might endanger their bees: petrol stations, factories, refineries. They hack the media, murder bankers and blow up shopping centres. N and L soon achieve a curious fame and they even have a film made about their escapades, called “Zero”. The couple are eventually forced to realise that, no matter what they do, they are destined to become part of the establishment. As the film ends, L becomes the political leader of a new regime, and N escapes to start life anew in Africa…
POLIGAMY
romantic
comedy
romantic
comedy
romantic
comedy
Directed by DÉNES OROSZ
Cast SÁNDOR CSÁNYI KÁTYA TOMPOS ANDREA OSVÁRT
Producer GÁBOR HERENDI
Runtime 85 MIN
Year 2009
Andras and Lilla are a young couple, who have been together for five years. Lilla wants a wedding and a baby, while Andras… well, he doesn’t really know what he wants. Then one day Lilla announces that she is pregnant. Andras is overcome by mixed feelings. The next morning Andras wakes up next to a beautiful woman who is a complete stranger…
SOS LOVE!
Directed by TAMÁS SAS
Cast IVÁN FENYÔ SÁNDOR CSÁNYI MÓNIKA ULLMANN
Producer ÁDÁM NEMÉNYI
Runtime 96 MIN
Year 2008
Péter is the head of a high-tech matchmaker company which organises dream dates. One day Tamás walks through the door with a request. He can’t find a way to get close to Veronica, the woman of his dreams. Péter comes up with a spectacular plan: he rents a mansion in the country for Tamás, and every-body goes on to pose as Tamás’ family in the hope of winning Veronica’s heart.
9 & 1/2 DATES
Directed by TAMÁS SAS
Cast IVÁN FENYÔ PATRICIA KOVÁCS ANDREA SÖPTEI,
Producer ÁDÁM NEMÉNYI
Runtime 95 MIN
Year 2008
David is the king of life and the most wanted bachelor. Nowadays everyone seems to forget the fact that once he was a writer. His publisher sues him for failing to deliver a new book after three years and gives him a subject: he has to write a book within 10 days, about why are there so many lonely young women these day.
romantic
comedy
drama/thriller
romantic/
comedy
musical
JUST SEX AND
NOTHING ELSE
Directed by KRISZTINA GODA
Cast JUDIT SCHELL SÁNDOR CSÁNYI KATA DOBÓ
Producer GÁBOR KÁLOMISTA
Runtime 91 MIN
Year 2005
Dora, a successful dramatist, has had one disastrous relationship after another and is through with men. She decides to have a child on her own, and starts to look for an appropriate donor. The plan is very simple: Dora chooses the suitable man, spends a night with him, does what needs to be done, then life goes on. The film and the story is to be continued…
CHAMELEON
MADE IN
HUNGARIA
Directed by GERGELY FONYÓ
Cast IVÁN FENYÔ TAMÁS SZABÓ KIMMEL TÜNDE KISS
Producer ÁDÁM NEMÉNYI
Runtime 109 MIN
Year 2009
In 1963, when everybody else would like to escape to the West, an adolescent boy Miki and his parents leave behind the American dream and return to Budapest. Back in Hungary revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries regard Miki’s jobless father with suspicion, while Miki – who is a great pianist and singer – with dreams of becoming the next Jerry Lee Lewis…
Directed by KRISZTINA GODA
Cast ERVIN NAGY GABRIELLA HÁMORI ZSOLT TRILL
Producers GÁBOR KÁLOMISTA,
ERNÔ MESTERHÁZY, MÓNIKA MÉCS
Runtime 104 MIN
Year 2008
Gabor is a conman who carefully chooses his victims. His targets are mostly disillusioned, lonely women. It only takes him a few months to rob them of their savings. Having an unusually high IQ and an ability to assume various person-alities, Gabor is an artist in manipulation. Then Gabor meets Hanna, an injured dancer who happens to be the daughter of a millionaire...
A KIND OF
AMERICA
comedy
comedy
comedy/crime
drama/
A KIND OF
AMERICA 2.
Directed by GÁBOR HERENDI
Cast TIBOR SZERVÉT CSABA PINDROCH GYÔZÔ SZABÓ
Producer GÁBOR HERENDI
Runtime 110 MIN
Year 2008
In the first part the three brothers got stumped. Tamás’s dream film project, “The Guilty City”, is a failure, and their lottery win is a thing of the past. So, the guys must do something together if they want to get back into the game. They accidentally stumble on a clue that leads them to Alex and they come up with a plan.
KONYEC
Directed by GÁBOR ROHONYI
Cast EMIL KERES TERI FÖLDI JUDIT SCHELL
Producers MÓNIKA MÉCS, ERNÔ MESTERHÁZY
Runtime 105 MIN
Year 2007
Is life really over after the age of 70? For most, the answer is yes. But for the film’s two retired protagonists, it’s only just beginning. A story about two pensioners who set out on a journey, which makes them both feel free and gives them the chance to live out everything they dreamed of in their youth.
Directed by GÁBOR HERENDI
Cast TIBOR SZERVÉT CSABA PINDROCH GYÔZÔ SZABÓ
Producer GÁBOR HERENDI
Runtime 115 MIN
Year 2002
Three brothers, one common cause. Each and everyone of them chipping whatever they can. Talent, power, heart... One of the brothers is a film director mostly doing commercials, yearns for the ’real’ feature film. The second brother is successful, the third is not. Then comes Alex, a producer from Hollywood, looking just like the ’real’ thing, and everything is turned upside down, even the maid...
comedy
HAUNTED
HOLIDAY
Directed by PÉTER TÍMÁR
Cast GÁBOR REVICZKY JUDIT POGÁNY JÓZSEF SZARVAS
Producer GÁBOR KÁLOMISTA
Runtime 100 MIN
Year 2010
In a remote village, Charlie and Steve stumble across an abandoned castle, which they manage to secure from the local council for a ridiculously small sum. They are drinking to the deal of the century in the local pub when an old man tells them that the place is cursed and that’s why the mayor was so keen to get it off his hands. Charlie and Steve laugh at such a ridiculous superstition.
comedy/
drama
dramedy
CAMEMBERT ROSE
Directed by BARNABÁS TÓTH Cast BARNABÁS TÓTH ZOLTÁN BEZERÉDI DOUCELINE DERRÉALProducer JENÔ HÁBERMANN
Runtime 93 MIN
Year 2009
Tibor, an excentric, hedonistic gynecologist father, raises alone his 19-year-old son, Dani. Tibor’s egoistic, success-centred character sharply opposes to Dani’s shy and romantic behaviour searching for love instead of plain sex. Tibor is constantly trying to shape his son to his taste, pushing him to escape to France visiting his musician uncle…
PANIC
Directed by ATTILA TILL
Cast JUDIT SCHELL ÁGI GUBÍK ANGÉLA STEFANOVICS
Producers ANDRÁS MUHI, MONIKA MÉCS, ERNÔ MESTERHÁZY
Runtime 93 MIN
Year 2008
Several storylines run parallel in the film set in a mental health clinic. The characters are connected through family relations, accidental and shared characteristics, or suffering caused by some sort of neurosis.
TEAM BUILDING
drama
drama/thriller
Directed by RÉKA ALMÁSI
Cast ZSOLT NAGY PÉTER NAGY ALEXIS LATHAM
Producer FERENC PUSZTAI
Runtime 90 MIN
Year 2010
To what extent does the nowadays so popular brainwashing, referred to as TEAM BUILDING, help us find our way in everyday life? In what respect does it help us answer the fundamental questions of our lives? To what extent is a person from a former communist country capable of adopting the values dictated by this brave new world?
CZUKOR SHOW
Directed by TAMÁS DÖMÖTÖR
Cast BALÁZS CZUKOR ZSOLT ANGER KATA PÉTER
Producers FERENC PUSZTAI, INEZ MÁTIS
Runtime 80 MIN
Year 2010
A man and his troupe arrive to the ’problem-solving’ show of a fictional national television channel. The company is brought together by the sister of the man, whom she has not seen for six years, to get the family together. The show breaks loose, and turns into a genuine drama. The film concentrates on the drama of the family, which has multiple levels, but one common cause.
PINPRICK
Directed by DANIEL YOUNG
Cast RACHAEL BLAKE LAURA GREENWOOD ERVIN NAGY
Producers GÁBOR HERENDI, ÁGNES HAVAS
Runtime 93 MIN
Year 2009
A teenage girl is hiding a criminal inside her bedroom closet. At first they have an innocent relationship, but slowly the man becomes bored with her girly ways, and begins to spy on her lonely mother. One day, after a jealous fight with the girl, the man leaves the closet and makes his way into the mother’s life.
drama
LULL
drama
Directed by TAMÁS SAS
Cast PATRICIA KOVÁCS ADÉL KOVÁTS ANNA PÁLMAI
Producers ATTILA FARAGÓ, TAMÁS SAS
Runtime 73 MIN
Year 2009
The movie is the story of three women who taking advantage of a promising day, set sail for a pleasant cruise from a yacht club at Lake Balaton. Two of them are siblings, the third one is the friend of the younger sister, and – not incidentally – their future mother-in-law.
drama
VIRTUALLY
A VIRGIN
Directed by PÉTER BACSÓ
Cast JULIA UBRANKOVICS ATTILA TÓTH FERENC HUJBER
Producer GÁBOR KÁLOMISTA
Runtime 107 MIN
Year 2008
Boroka grows up in an orphanage. She celebrates her 18th birthday in a luxury hotel with her boyfriend. Life in paradise seems to come to a sour end when they run out of cash. Boroka, with no money and no options moves in with her boyfriend, who is keen to supplement his income by selling her body to calling clients.
drama
OVERNIGHT
Directed by FERENC TÖRÖK
Cast VIKTOR BODÓ ARTUR SZÔCS ERVIN NAGY
Producers IVÁN ANGELUSZ, GÁBOR KOVÁCS
Runtime 93 MIN
Year 2008
A star broker, Péter Vas, has one day and one night to recoup an enormous sum missing from his biggest client’s account. It might be just enough time, as the markets in the Far East open before the sun comes up in Europe. Can he win this high-stake gamble and resolve his potentially catastrophic personal issues over the course of 24 hours?
NOSEDIVE
Directed by ERIK NOVÁK
Cast ZSOLT NAGY VERA BARANYAI DORKA GRYLLUS
Producer GÁBOR KÁLOMISTA
Runtime 105 MIN
Year 2007
A fairytale thriller that turns the town upside down and looks at life’s lurid under-belly. An urban legend about a young chancer, a beautiful girl, and a rotten deal... Believe it or not, it’s a real-life story about a life that turns frighteningly real. Based on the author’s very individual experience, this film carries an equally clear anti-drug message.
drama/
action/thriller
MILKY WAY
drama
Directed by BENCE FLIEAGAUF
Cast PÉTER BALÁZS SÁNDOR BALOGH LÁSZLÓ BENEDEK
Producers ANDRÁS MUHI, MÓNIKA MÉCS
Runtime 76 MIN
Year 2007
Bence Fliegauf’s goal was to make a psychedelic film that, similarly to the ambient musical style, allows the viewer to receive the film on various levels of attention and does not force any concrete interpretation.
drama
WHITE PALMS
Directed by SZABOLCS HAJDU
Cast MIKLÓS ZOLTÁN HAJDU KYLE SHEWFELT ORION RADIES
Producers IVÁN ANGELUSZ, GÁBOR KOVÁCS, ÁGI PATAKI, PETER REICH
Runtime 100 MIN
Year 2006
From Debrecen to Las Vegas – the story of a gymnast. After Miklós Dongó’s highly promising gymnastic career is cut short by an injury, he arrives in Canada as a coach to rebuild his life. Doubt arises as to whether or not he will be able fit into this new world, and if he is up to the new challenges.
drama
drama/
history/romance
EASTERN SUGAR
Directed by FERENC TÖRÖK
Cast ZSOLT NAGY ERVIN NAGY JUDIT REZES
Producer LÁSZLÓ KÁNTOR
Runtime 93 MIN
Year 2004
2003. The location is Hungary, when the boys from the Plains region who have just graduated from the vocational school for catering set out to discover the country. The only important thing for them is that something should finally happen. However, they haven’t the faintest idea what that „something” should actually be. They set off to Lake Balaton in the hope of finding what they are looking for…
CHILDREN
OF GLORY
Directed by KRISZTINA GODA
Cast KATA DOBÓ IVÁN FENYÔ SÁNDOR CSÁNYI
Producer ANDREW G. VAJNA
Runtime 123 MIN
Year 2006
Budapest, 1956. A young waterpolo star, Karcsi, becomes embroiled in the anti-Soviet Revolution that is brewing in the streets. At first, he is only out for adventure, but a fiery student, Viki, catches Karcsi’s eye. In following her steps he finds himself right at the heart of the uprising. Soon, with the subsequent retreat of the Red Army, the Revolution seems to be a success…
drama
DALLAS AMONG US
Directed by ROBERT-ADRIAN PEJO
Cast ZSOLT BOGDÁN DORKA GRYLLUS MIKLÓS SZÉKELY B.
Producers LÁSZLÓ KÁNTOR, GLORIA BURKERT & ANDREAS BAREISS, HELMUT GRASSER
Runtime 93 MIN
Year 2005
On the occasion of his estranged father’s death, Radu, a native Gypsy, returns to the tin-shack community of his childhood. Despite his resistance to this outcast society, he finds love and an increasingly deeper sense of responsibility and identity with the plight of his people.
drama
FOOLS’ SONG
Directed by CSABA BERECZKI
Cast JULIE DEPARDIEU STÉPHANE HÖHN KÁROLY EPERJES
Producer CSABA BERECZKI
Runtime 108 MIN
Year 2003
Zoltán Frimont is on a mission in Romania when he collapses and finds himself at a psychiatric institution in Transylvania. Within a short time he discovers the peculiar world of the mentally ill, and feels he is surrounded by a more genuine world than in the „normal” world. He decides to stay in hospital for good. However, he is so burdened by a trauma in this past and he must return to Paris for a short time…
drama
GLAMOUR
Directed by FRIGYES GÖDRÖS
Cast KÁROLY EPERJES ESZTER ÓNODI GYÖRGY BARKÓ
Producers ILONA GRUNDMANN, GERALD W. KRUSE, KORNÉL SIPOS
Runtime 115 MIN
Year 2000
The film is about three generations of Hungarian Jews. It centres on the love affair of Imre and Gerda. Imre is the elder son of the family patriarch. Imre greets Gerda when she arrives from Germany to teach. He shepherds her through a sham marriage and divorce, so that she, now an Aryan, can marry him.
drama
FOREST
Directed by BENCE FLIEAGAUF
Cast RITA BRAUN BARBARA CSONKA GÁBOR DIÓSI
Producer ANDRÁS MUHI
Runtime 95 MIN
Year 2003
“Before you get lost in it.” The heroes and heroines of Forest live in Budapest, in a city that will one day disappear into the fog, like all the rest. Critically acclaimed Bence Fliegauf’s directorial debut feature, which earned him Berlinale Wolfgang Staudte Prize in 2003.
short/drama
BLOOD AND
HIGH HEELS
comedy/drama
short/
THE KISS
GOODNIGHT
mystery/crime
short/
MELDRUM
HOUSE
Directed by DAVID GECZY
Cast SONIA COULIN IVAN KAMARAS ALEXIS LETHAM
Producer BELA SZABO PETER DEAK
Runtime 23 MIN
Year 2012
The first three workdays of a secretary Rose Red. She gets a new job and a nasty boss. Her boss demands more and more from the girl. He even allows himself to be way too personal and harassing, so the fragile secretary turns into a raging peril. The result is a broken laptop and a dead body.
Directed by JUSZT BALÁZS
Cast ÁRPA ATTILA DOBÓ KATA BEN O’BRIEN
Producers STANCULEANU ANDREEA
Runtime 17 MIN
Year 2009
A dark comedy about speaking your mind and facing the fears everyone faces – well, that is if they dare to look the right way. It's a satire about realizing that prior to living up to expectations, one must first learn to live.
Directed by ATTILA ÁRPA
Cast ATTILA ÁRPA
Producer ATTILA ÁRPA
Runtime 15 MIN
Year 2012
A trip into the mind of a killer. A journey into the past and into the darkest chanbers of a lost man’s soul. Detective Milton Pritchett investigates an unusual case known as the Wedding Night Murder.
short/fantasy
CHOICE 3D
Directed by KRISZTIÁN KÁROLY KÖVES
Cast IVIE WENTWORTH TAMÁS LENGYEL DÓRA BARTHA
Producer PETER DEÁK JUDIT ROMWALTER
Runtime 12 MIN
Year 2012
The first Hungarian 3D stereoscopic short film.
An epic fiction about the women's decision process. They know the secret: „You always have a choice. Even if the decision has been made.”
ANIMATED SHORT COLLECTION
Flow 4’00“
Bootleg Platypus: Platy In Cube City 13’20“
Bed 2’22“ Bedtime Story 1’10“ Pig Slaughter 1’38“ Borders 1’00“ Streamschool 2’00“ Darkness 5’15“ Tadpole 1’45“
The Ballad Of An Illiterate Little Spider 1’37“ The Prehistoric Man Of Leander-valley 2’21“
Hedgehog Talk 1’23“
Agobago’s Dream 2’18“
Ron 6’10“
A Fox 6’24“
Yours To Discover 5’07“
Septa In The Deep 3’46“
I Got Neighbours 3’11“
Fly Me To The Moon 5’10“ Lady With Long Hair 10’00“
Mirikal 5’00“
Demon Cottage Inn 4’40“
Heritage 3’25“
Trees 12’00“
Why? 7’31“
Monster Catch 5’50“
The Snow King 7’00“
Blackwood 6’30“
Hearth 5’40“
SYNOPSIS
We are proud to offer a fine selection of MOME animated short films created by an outstanding collection of young and talented Hungarian artists. Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) is one of the leading institutions of its type in Europe with a solid tradition and expansive expertise in visual culture, which it combines with the latest technology to provide a professional education to its large student base.
EPISODE LIST
Alone 9’14“
Rain 4’20“
ANIMATIONS
EUROPEAN FOLK
TALES FROM THE
ANCIENT CHEST
Directed by EMESE SZABÓ
Producer TIBORNÉ SZABÓ
Runtime 16 EPISODES
Year 2012
We were inspired by the thought of Pan-European identity of folk-tales, which shows the cultural diversity of the peoples of Europe in 20 tales of 16 countries. These folk-tales disclose the eternal truth of universal human values behind the multi-plicity of traditions and the difference of language and folk-art of these countries.
HUNGARIAN
FOLK TALES
Directed by MARCELL JANKOVICS MÁRIA HORVÁTH LAJOS NAGY
Original VoiceGYULA SZABÓ
Producer FERENC MIKULÁS
Runtime 100 EPISODES x 8 MIN
Year 1977
The world famous multiple awarded series recalls the well-known traditional tales of Hungary. 100 short tales, 100 episodes in VIII series.
IMMIGRANTS –
L.A. Dolce Vita
Directed by GABOR CSUPO
Original Voice ERIK MCCORMACK HANK AZARIA DAN CASTELLANETA
Producers GABOR CSUPO, ARLENE KLASKY, GABOR KALOMISTA
Runtime 78 MIN OR 6 x 25 MIN
Year 2008
Immigrants is the story of Vladislav (a Russian), and Joska (a Hungarian). Both are immigrants and best friends, living and chasing the American dream together – and they stuck with it.
EGON & DÖNCI
Directed by ÁDÁM MAGYAR
Original Voice NO DIALOGUES
Producer ANDREA GÁLICZA
Runtime 75 MIN
Year 2007
Egon & Donci live on an idyllic, little planet in a neighbouring solar system. Egon is an amateur ’rocket scientist’ assisted by a catlike creature called Donci. Their simple existence suddenly gets complicated when an unidentified object, named Voyager-3, flies into their lives, with a message from Earth.
LEO & FRED
Directed by PÁL TÓTH
Original Voice NO DIALOGUES
Producer FERENC MIKULÁS
Runtime 60 MIN
Year 1987
The film is set in a circus. The characters are artists, clowns and strongmen. The two main characters are Leo, the lion and Fred, his trainer. Charming stories about their everyday lives. Leo and Fred are more than just colleagues, they’re really good friends. After a long life together in the big top, now old and grey, they retire from the ring and begin a totally new artistic career.
WATER-SPIDER,
WONDER-SPIDER
Directed by JOZSEF HAUI SZABOLCS SZABÓ CSABA SZOMBATI SZABÓ
Original Voice ISTVAN PATHÓ, ENDRE HARKÁNYI
Producer FERENC MIKULÁS
Runtime 72 MIN
Year 1982
An early spring morning, Water-Spider – who is roused from his winter sleep in a snail shell – takes a bath. After an argument with the Cross-Spider, the two spiders become close friends and they go on to have many funny underwater-adventures...
THERE WAS ONCE...
Directed by GÁBOR KALMAN
Cast GYÖNGYI MAGO, GÁBOR KALMAN
Producer GÁBOR KALMAN
Runtime 103 MIN
Year 2011
An inspirational documentary about an extraordinary high school teacher’s endurance to find the lost and reconnect the Jewish community once lived in her howtown. There are remarkable stories of resistance, aid, and survival, as well as the recollections and regrets of non-Jewish townsfolk.
MOTALKO –
The Chronicle
of a Petrol Station
Directed by ATTILA KÉKESI
Cast MR. TASZILÓ LANDTHALLER MRS. TASZILÓ LANDTHALLER ZOLTÁN HOMOLA
Producer MIKLÓS HAVAS
Runtime 31 MIN
Year 2011
The documentary tells the story of Tasziló Landthaller, owner of the first Hungarian private petrol station in Hungary, founded in 1936. The documentary describes his struggle to keep his property in an era when it was almost impossible to own any private property. He is still active and customers can still buy the Motalko, the E85, just aslike they could 76 years ago.
GERMAN UNITY@
BALATON
(Honeyland)Directed by PÉTER FORGÁCS
Cast KLAUS BOBACH ULRICH GRUNERT CATRIN HENNECKE
Producers LÁSZLÓ KÁNTOR, CESAR MESSEMAKER
Runtime 79 MIN
Year 2011
East German tourists simply adored Lake Balaton and not only because they were not allowed to travel anywhere else, but because of its silky waters and sunny weather. It was a meeting place between East and West where divided families could enjoy Hungarian hospitality but many of them were under surveillance by the East German Stasi and the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior.
COUNTRY STABBED
IN THE HEART
Directed by GÁBOR KÁLOMISTA
Producer GÁBOR KÁLOMISTA
Runtime 80 MIN
Year 2009
MKB Veszprem is one of the best handball teams in the world. A team where everyone is local. Cuban, Serbian, Croatian, Ukrainian, and Hungarian players give their heart into the game. Marian Cozma, the Romanian player was a local as well. He was murdered in the town on February 8, 2009. A story which shocked the world.
CAVE
Directed by JULIA SZEDERKÉNYI
Producer LÁSZLÓ KÁNTOR
Runtime 82 MIN
Year 2009
“If the eye that adventures the vision be dimmed by vice, impure, or weak, and unable in its cowardly blenching to see the uttermost brightness, then it sees nothing even though another point to what lies plain to sight before it. To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen, and having some likeness to it. Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.” Plotinus: On Beauty 1.6.9.
SONG OF LIVES
Directed by CSABA BERECZKI
Producer CSABA BERECZKI TAMÁS TOLMÁR
Runtime 100 MIN
Year 2008
In a village deep in Transylvania, a number of people are attending the funeral of a great Gypsy–Hungarian violinist. His death brought together all the musicians int he region. The Master is gone, but a new group is born, an orchestra of 27 musicians of Gypsies, Romanians and Hungarians. The film, like a gentle road-movie, discovers the tragic and happy moments through different destinies. Their music however, is eternal.
PALACE OF DREAMS
Directed by TONY SUTCLIFFE
Cast KITTY KÉRI ATTILA KASZÁS PÉTER RUDOLF
Producer LÁSZLÓ KÁNTOR
Runtime 52 MIN
Year 2001
“Not long after my arrival here, I made a trip to the residential castle of Prince Esterhazy. With the exception of Versaille, there is no place to compare with it for magnificence. He keeps a theatre, which is certainly unique of its kind. The biggest operas are given in it. His court orchestra is one of the best I have ever heard and the great HAYDN is his court and theatre composer.” (The diary of Baron Riesbecke, 1784)
