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Browse 51 movies from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. Also on Earth there are places and situations with strange attraction. Some back off, some step closer to observe.
May 2015
A woman has lost her grandmother. The grandma's apartment is now lifeless, only a few boxes lie in the living room. But is that truly all that is left behind her?
Jun 2023
"Helfer" portrays the relationship of a helper and an anxious young woman through symbolic events set in a surrealistic world. The young woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, from which she seeks a permanent solution. The helper offers her an alternative proposition, during which she has to face her deapest fears
Nov 2019
A micro-world, where everything refers to the slogan: "We are all connected."
Aug 2013
A young warehouse worker suffers under the monotony of his life. One day, a new figure enters his world: a television host, who through small, seemingly insignificant events lures him into the realm of the commercial broadcasts. The man seizes the opportunity, but pays a heavy price for his decision.
Jan 2026
Vajk, a deaf teenager, controls his connection to the world through his hearing aid. His older brother drags him out of his comfort zone and takes him to a concert by a mysterious band. In the crowd, he loses control and gives himself over to the rhythm as he discovers his inner voice.
Three women, three lives in parallel worlds, until the moment a fly causes a bug in the system. The universe collapses, sex is in the air, bras are overrated and the stars twinkle.
Feb 2019
A little girl has an adventure with water as she travels from a small brook to the sea. A tale of growing up based on a Hungarian poem.
Oct 2011
Carpenter, Grey and Widow accompanied by the barman Titi are consuming their well-deserved drinks and having highbrow conversations in the muggy, scorching heat, while hours, days and perhaps years go by. A rural arbor pub's timeless milieu becomes the stage for everyday discussions and for the meaning of life.
This is a stop motion film made by Hanna Carlson, Milán Kopasz, Maja Szakadát and Nadja Andrasev as our fifth semester project at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. The dialogue in this film has no actual meaning, it is self-created gibberish.
Jan 2011
A story about Lina, a girl from a remote rural area, whose mother tries her luck abroad. The film tells a personal story about the life changing experience of finding a treasure embedded in a wider social context, by expressing it with the quietness and pace of life on the fringes.
The glasshouse is a metaphorical stage for the creator's inner world, in which three characters, two actresses and a director, embody different emotions. They meet here to make a film, but the process has an unexpected effect on all three.
Oct 2024
Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer's new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident Deer finds himself in a new world, unknown to him. Separated by dimensions the two characters have to find the way back to each other.
Dec 2013
An inner landscape in constant motion, where traces of the world around us summon the passage of time. Here, collective memory dissolves into personal nostalgia; places and moments drift beyond their concrete form, surrendering to a fluid, emotional logic.
Our Sleeping is based on the director's own and her family's sleeping habits. The film shows short episodes from her relatives' life about how do they deal with their problems in their sleeping.
A garden party is held in the park of the baroque castle: the landscape is idyllic, the company is cozy, the food is aristocratic, and everything is traditional and refined. At the same time, in the other part of the garden, cages rattle, ropes rustle, and foxes whine. From the initial idyll, the film slowly moves to another level of pleasure, and a cruel game of "fox throwing" begins, which becomes increasingly bloody and inhumane.
Horizon shows images of thirteen locations where the presence of human life and its traces are intimately linked to the view of their environment. Aged moods, tiny shivers, the subtle movements of amortisation altogether create this situation by which the viewers can immerse themselves in the impulses of the Hungarian countryside.
Jun 2015
Two girls live together along a post-apocalyptic coast, sharing the same goal of reaching the other side in hope of a better life. However, when one of them encounters a mysterious creature, a chain of irreversible events begins.
Sep 2020
The chalk-drawing animated film is based on Richard Brautigan’s novel: „Revenge of the lawn”. This is a remembrance, the story of a childhood memory about grandma’ and grandpa’. After the death of grandpa’, Jack took over the domesticities, and delivered grandma’s bourbon on his truck. Grandma’s whisky served as a salutary refreshment during prohibition times. Her house wore the traces of two accidents. The film tells the story of these accidents.
Jun 2005
The story is set in a fictional ancient civilization where the practice of human sacrifices to gain the favor of the gods is widespread. The ritual takes place at the top of a massive pyramid, with a large hole in the center into which the chosen ones are thrown at the climax of the ceremony.