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Browse 43 movies from Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem
Variations on relationships in a New Year Day atmosphere set in a huge and rundown 1980s style hotel awaiting demolition by Lake Balaton, Hungary. Three women and five men in various ways.
Aug 2009
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Feb 2012
An unlikely hero sets off to save the beautiful Boglárka from the dragon who kidnapped her.
Jul 2015
A girl stuck in an apartment feels lonely and alienated, just like a ghost. She is transparent and silent, not entirely here but haven't decided to move on either. She might just be a memory floating in between dimensions.
Sep 2019
Misi (16) and Áron (18) are half brothers, who are raised by their mother, but they could not be more different. Both boys are good at fencing, and when Misi joins the same fencing team as his older brother, and quickly turns out to be even more talented, Áron's repressed jealousy starts to resurface.
Nov 2017
Peti is a diabetic and breeder of phoenixes. When a sweet meteorite lands in his room one day, he can’t wait to rush out and tell someone about it. Irma, dressed in her dad’s old diving suit and the architect of the home-made meteorites, proves to be an ideal companion…
Aug 2021
Andrea and Krisztina Marics are 28-year-old identical twins with a teaching degree that have lived together since birth. They work together at a touring circus, doing joint artistic performances. After a long circus tour abroad, Andrea leaves the close relationship and ends their work together. She feels that she can succeed on her own. Krisztina still lives and works in the circus but struggles to find her place there without Andrea. After the winter tour, Krisztina has to decide if she stays at home with her sister or continues the life of a wanderer.
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2030, Budapest. In an empty cinema, two strangers (a boy and a girl) sit next to each other and start chatting. They soon realise, their encounter is far beyond coincidence...
Dec 2020
Mr. Miller cannot feel. He is never angry, never sad. In fact he doesn't have any emotions, he cannot suffer from pain, taste or smell. Other then this he is a typical Hungarian nobody exploited by all the other Hungarian nobodies. Strangers, neighbours, friends, everyone wants something from Mr. Miller and he gladly provides. In a single day he loses everything a human being can lose and this turns out to be a great fun for everyone except for maybe him. This is an absurd tragicomedy about the utter deconstruction of the imperfect Mr. Miller.
Jan 2015
A young medic, Levente, spends his internship at a rural hospital in Hungary. He starts to question his trust in his teacher, professor Kovács, after a case with a Romani woman who had just given birth. Based on a true story.
Feb 2020
So far, Balázs has lived the intellectual dream. He began his career working for the UN and later became the CFO of a prestigious Hungarian NGO. He has two children with his girlfriend, a French UN staff member, and together they live in one of the best neighborhoods in Budapest. And yet, something is missing. Balázs tries everything to distract himself from the fact that his dream job has become a burden, but nothing helps until he changes everything and becomes a bike courier.
Nov 2022
A lonely woman in war-torn Sarajevo embarks on a journey to find water, and neither her neighbours nor sniper fire can stop her.
Aug 2018
Áron stands in his life as an average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree, and a recent break up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job seeker and while Áron is agonizing on his lost love, he is always interrupted by something; it seems like he’s not the main character in his life.
Jul 2014
A student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979. Presumed lost until very recently.
Jan 1979
Teenager Lena is preparing for her first ever sexual experience. She is overwhelmed by fears and expectations of the family legend of the Wonderpussy. Tonight Lena will find out whether she inherited the ability, which may change the way she sees her lover.
Feb 2018
It’s the 1980s in Communist Budapest and 8-year old Málna shows up in her rock star father’s life, a man struggling with political oppression and various addictions. After the night out together, everything changes between them.
Dec 2019
We cannot live only by our fears, because our greatest enemy in life will be ourselves, from which we will only be able to free ourselves by a trauma. We have to deal with our feelings and inner problems ourselves, we cannot suppress our anxiety after a while, we have to face them.
Oct 2021
In a depressing, dreamless world a girl, who can't find her place, falls in love with another. Their love is dream in this dreary world, where people want to exploit every minute, without saving time for important things. Every artificial pleasure is available, though what has been natural, like sleep, dream, love or timeless togetherness seems to be gone forever.
Dec 2010
As tensions grow between teenager Peti and his mother, the hope of a peaceful family celebration fades.
Arthur, the middle-aged fashion photographer comes back for a photoshoot to the shabby district, where he was born.
Mar 2018