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Browse 43 movies from Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem
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
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
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
As tensions grow between teenager Peti and his mother, the hope of a peaceful family celebration fades.
Feb 2020
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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Alesia is a five year old girl growing up in an industrial city of Donetsk, Ukraine. She has to face the reality of her surroundings after growing up in love and hope in the warm family nest.
Aug 2009
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
An unlikely hero sets off to save the beautiful Boglárka from the dragon who kidnapped her.
Jul 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.
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.
Father and Son. Two lines coming near to each other but only meeting in the infinity. Noel's father is dying. They have never been close to each other. The son feels that he must understand the reason for it before it's too late.
Dec 2019
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 Hungarian rural gypsy settlement in the present day, in a fairy-tale landscape of rolling hills and greenery. A teenage boy is preparing for an important dance competition with his friends, so he makes a pact with the alleged devil. The real inner battle is just beginning
Aug 2022
Vera is an emotionally unstable young psychologist, who cannot even manage her own problems. After her musician boyfriend breaks up with her, she refuses to face the fact: she is no longer needed.
Józsi is sitting on his bed, watching TV. His grandmother is wrapping a gift in the kitchen and coughing. It is just the two of them. On the screen a star is dying and Józsi turns up the volume. He turned eighteen today.
Nov 2019
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.
The movie is a chamber play which takes place in a theater at one night. The main motive is a love triangle involving a married couple and an actor, we can observe the last minutes of their complicated relationship. The casual, the theatrical and the dream-like reality combines in the movie. Its theme is the constant conflict between the sexual desire and faithfulness.
Jan 2017
Aron is a 10-year old lonely boy. He lives with his mother in a room of a junk motel. He helps her run the bar. Hovering around the adults, Aron creates an extraordinary imaginary world in which the main characters are his father, a song, and a music box. One day a new guest arrives at the motel and Aron's world is turned upside down. He has to choose where he belongs.
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