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Browse 26 movies from Budapest Metropolitan University
Can we move on if the person we have lived a life with ceases to be with us? Kati moves out of their home after the loss of her husband. As the small apartment that once served the two of them slowly empties, Kati clings to a memory they shared.
Jan 2024
A teenager filmbuff and a single woman in her forties meet each other. Then they meet again and start to realize that they might have more in common, than meets the eye, and form an unlikely connection.
Sep 2020
After the death of his brother, modern-day slave Gábor (50) along with another slave Veronika tries to find his deceased brother’s papers to properly bury him outside the farm. Their captors would want to keep this all quiet and hinder Gábor from doing so.
Feb 2025
A slow night at the gas station takes a drastic turn when a strange girl appears.
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On their 1-year anniversary, Lina and Ábel’s love is tested when Ábel’s acceptance to the University of Sydney and their difficulties with miscommunication begin to pull them apart.
Escaping from an alien planet, an astronaut must reach the space shuttle before a mysterious beast catches him.
Sep 2019
What makes a boy a man? A film about childhood, family and growing up.
Mar 2018
A lonely young man lives on a remote rock, dreaming of a connection he’s never experienced. In a fantastic world where dream and reality fog, he searches for a bond that feels just out of reach. A minimalist and poetic story about isolation, longing, and the desire to connect.
Irén, the museum hall guard, is happy to work amongst the great works of classical paintings. But one day, she finds herself confronted with a new, abstract painting. The incomprehensible work has a profound effect on her and will not let her rest. The next workday, she makes an unexpected move.
Oct 2023
A middle-aged father leaves his teenage daughter and his step-son from his new marriage alone in the car. While the father is away, the conflict between the children spirals.
Nov 2020
For old Margaret, who lives alone, unexpected and tragic news bring positive change in her life. Doctors predict that she has only a few months left, but she starts to live again just now.
May 2019
The main character is a young girl who sees the world around her as cold, depraved and ugly. She can’t and won’t fit in. One day, a strange cloud appears over her apartment, triggering a supernatural event.
Jun 2020
A motherless family tries to go on a vacation.
Sep 2023
Short about an adorable, cocoa-drinking deer who is eager to tidy and shoveling in front of his house every day. However, there is a suspicious earthquake all night which causes the mess day by day and make unbearable our fella's life.
Aug 2015
A man encounters weird things everywhere he goes. Is he gone mad, or has the world?
Nov 2022
A philosophical look into András Ambrus, an alternative musician’s mind, exploring how he creates music and positions himself between the boundary of his thoughts and the world.
Aug 2025
Oliver, the giant of a planet, lives among tiny humans in the belief that he is the ruler of the world, until one day an enormous shadow appears and turns his fate around.
Aug 2023
The absolutely desperate Thomas having lost his love of life starts to envy his brother Abel all the care and attention given to Abel at the funeral of their deceased sister which Thomas has longed for in all his life. He feels an outcast in the community forged together by mourning and it incites him to extreme deeds. The film is an adaptation of the Bible story, Cain and Abel.
Aug 2021
In a small dystopian town ravaged by drought, one resident challenges the tradition of human sacrifice in exchange for rain, and jeopardizes the power of the town’s leader with his invention, designed to pump water...
Tired of being single, a girl wants to find a partner.
Jun 2022